Friday, September 30, 2011

Apple may drop into Catawba County - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and representgNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive package ever. Huge server farms are already on thewant list, says Scotyt Millar, president. “They’ve been a target of ours for four Several data center projects are consideringthe county, he The primary site that interestsd Apple is the 180-acre Catawba Data a greenfield project planned along U.S. Highwau 321 near Newton, sources say. Thers Apple would get its preference for a campuss setting with otherdata centers. Perdue says Apple will builde in North Carolina butshe didn’t announcde a specific site.
“We welcome Apple to Nortyh Carolina and look forward to workinv with the company as it begins providing a significant economixc boost to local communitiesa andthe state.” Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolina will begin “We are getting started right away to acquirr a site.” The announcement comes after Perdu signed Senate Bill 575, whichb modifies the method by which capital-intensive businesses calculatse corporate income tax liabilityh in North Carolina. The N.C. incentived would rebate $46 millionn to Apple over the next10 years.
If the center operateed for 30 years, the price tag of the inducements would zoomto $300 million, according to a legislative Apple has hired of Atlanta, an offshoot of that develops data T5 tried to interest Apple in the 215,000-square-foott former Chris-Craft facility in Kings Millar deflected questions about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would be calling he says. Apple needs the East Coast site for its server farm to handls growth in its iTunesonline store. Its last significantt data center, a $50 milliobn facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.

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