Ask yourself, is it good that a company headquarters is roughly the size of the Pentagon? Or should that be a red flag? I jest. Somewhat. But that's basically the size of Apple's new building, proposed by CEO Steve Jobs, although a bit of a smaller footprint overall. Check out the graphic below from the Mercury News. In a presentation before the Cupertino City Council on June 7 (see here), Jobs said, "Apple's growing like a weed."

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He said they have almost 12,000 people in the area and were renting buildings at an ever greater radius from their campus. They have a plan that allows them to stay in Cupertino and "continue to pay taxes." Apple bought some land formerly owned by Hewlett Packard, and have designed an unsual building.

"It's a little like a spaceship landed," Jobs told the council. Here's what the building will have:

• 4 stories high
• 3.1 million square foot sphere of glass
• energy-generating center
• 150 acres of land
• capable of holding 12,000
• auditorium
• employee gym
• cafeteria that can hold 3,000 people
• some aboveground but mostly underground parking
• research facilities
• move-in: 2015
• 6,000 trees and apricot orchards
• 80 percent of the land will be landscaped

Credit: Youtube Screen grab; Mercury News