Apple is in
the final stages of constructing a mammoth new campus in California to
house the bulk of its workers. It's been lovingly called the "Spaceship" for years, and the latest drone flyover of the site shows you why.
house the bulk of its workers. It's been lovingly called the "Spaceship" for years, and the latest drone flyover of the site shows you why.
As per usual,
two drone pilots have been conducting flyovers of the facility using DJI
Inspire 1 and Phantom 4 quadcopters. They show an outer building that's mostly
done, with details like landscaping and solar panels being finished at speed.
The first
video, filmed by Duncan Sinfield with his Inspire 1, does a good job of showing
you around campus. It's filmed either at dawn or dusk, and you get the coolest
effect of the entire building -- the glowing facade that really demonstrates
the spaceship theme rather well.
The
landscaping is one of the biggest projects left to complete. The famous Apple
iHill is marked out well for the final grade, but the remainder of the inside
of the spaceship is still just dirt.
Matthew
Roberts' drone footage, filmed with a DJI Phantom 3 Pro, takes a closer look at
the roof of the building, and in particular the solar panel installs. Apple has
made a big deal out of its environmental policies recently, installing wind and
solar on the roofs of some buildings, and debuting an iPhone recycling machine
to reduce e-waste.
The scale of
Apple's new HQ is always difficult to grasp from the drone footage, but the
occasional glimpse of tiny workers is enough to remind you how ambitious this
project is. Construction will cost around $5 billion -- expensive, for sure,
but a lot less than Apple's hundreds of billions of cash sitting offshore.
(It's less than Apple's back tax bill to the European Union, for that matter.)
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