Oppidan proposes a tech park in Apple Valley with five data centers on a former mining site. The 860,000-sq.-ft. project ...

Apple chief executive Tim Cook made an appearance in Reno, Nevada on Wednesday as his company broke ground on a new downtown warehouse that will serve Apple's nearby multi-billion data center.

But Apple also hopes to inspire other companies and organizations ... except “the manufacturer of the servers” in the Reno data center.