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## Will Apple enter the server business?

DevFeed: [Will Apple enter the server business?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/will-apple-enter-the-server-business-50515.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.computerworld.com/article/4223436/will-apple-enter-the-server-business.html>)

Author: Jonny Evans

Published: 2026-09-17T14:09:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Computerworld](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/computerworld.md>)

Topics: [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [private cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/private-cloud.md>), [data centers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-centers.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

Tags: [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [apple-data-center-macos-operating-systems-servers-vendors-and-providers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple-data-center-macos-operating-systems-servers-vendors-and-providers.md>), [apple-silicon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple-silicon.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [macos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/macos.md>), [operating-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operating-systems.md>), [private-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/private-cloud.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/strategy.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [vendors-and-providers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vendors-and-providers.md>)

### AI overview

The article considers whether Apple could re-enter the server business, pointing to its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, past Xserve products, growing enterprise adoption, and the performance and power-efficiency advantages of Apple Silicon. It also notes that MacStadium, AWS, and others already deploy Macs in server farms.

### Source excerpt

In a world of speculation, this week's most interesting rumor says Apple may plan to enter the server business once again, with powerful systems running its own Apple Silicon chips. It's hard to dismiss the claims, particularly as Apple is already in the server business, with its Texas factory manufacturing servers for its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) cloud intelligence system. While those servers are only used internally --or externally if installed at third-party data centers for use with Apple's ecosystem of products -- they are still servers. Apple is already in the server business It's also a business Apple has been in before. Many years ago, around 2002, I visited Apple in Paris, where the company demonstrated its Xserve and Xserve RAID systems. These were particularly aimed at the video and music industries and became quite widely used in those sectors. Apple discontinued Xserve in 2011, because the product sat outside its broad consumer-focused strategy. Things were different then. You see, today's Apple has billions of users. It has a fast-growing reach into enterprise tech -- SAP recently updated its fleet of 60,000 Macs to macOS 27 on the very day the OS shipped, and there are hundreds of thousands of Macs in use at businesses worldwide. Apple has hundreds of millions of iPhones in active use across business. Apple even has the silicon to power these things. The Apple Silicon advantage You can't ignore the computational advantage of Apple Silicon. The first leaked benchmarks for the M5 Ultra chip used in the new Mac Studio are incredibly impressive, with multi-core performance at an astonishing 52,516. That's amazing performance from a Mac that costs an estimated 8 cents an hour to run at full capacity. Now imagine that price/performance ratio stashed in a server. You don't even need to imagine it, because MacStadium, AWS, and others already use Macs in server farms, with great success. MacStadium CTO Chris Chapman once told me that Apple Silicon is so power