Because there's been photos of Apple building server racks with Apple Silicon, but also a recent leak.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/leaked-images-of-apple-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-begins-shipping-ai-se...

Apple built internal M5 servers for private cloud compute:

https://wccftech.com/apples-private-cloud-compute-server-m5-...

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

At this point it’s a well known secret that Apple has real rack mount servers for their internal processes. They actually have officially released video of their servers in the WSJ report on their chip supply chain.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photos-of-apples-own-ne...

> What makes you think that?

There’s articles about them, Apple uses them internally for AI services. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photos-of-apples-own-ne...

Apple has to have significant build infrastructure to support internal iOS development, surely? They can't just be using whatever is at the developers' desk, or a big pile of Mac minis in a closet. That's far too pedestrian for Apple internal works.

Plus they did sell rackmount servers for some time.

> What makes you think that?

Here's a leaked / rumor image of Apple servers themselves.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/leaked-images-of-apple-...

> [cites a convoluted work around]

> [still claims there is no reason]