Customers browse inside an Apple Inc. store at Two International Financial Center (IFC) in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Long lines formed outside Apple stores around the world, a sign of strong demand from consumers waiting for the company's 10th anniversary iPhone X. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg
DUBLIN: A planned US$1bil (RM4.24bil) Apple datacentre is in doubt after Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the US company's chief executive Tim Cook would no longer commit to it, adding that Dublin would do whatever necessary to get it built.
Apple announced plans in February 2015 to build the facility in a rural location in the west of Ireland to take advantage of green energy sources nearby, but the project has faced a two-year delay due to planning objections.
