Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Apple may drop into Catawba County - Birmingham Business Journal:

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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and represenNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive packags ever. Huge server farms are already on the want saysScott Millar, president. “They’vew been a target of ours for four years.” Severaol data center projects are consideringthe county, he The primary site that interests Apple is the 180-acr e Catawba Data Park, a greenfield projec t planned along U.S. Highway 321 near sources say. There Apple would get its preferenc e for a campus setting with otheddata centers. Perdue says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’t announce a specificc site.
“We welcome Apple to North Carolinaw and look forward to working with the company as it beginds providing a significant economic boost to local communitied andthe state.” Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolina will begin soon. “We are getting starteds right away to acquirwea site.” The announcement comes after Perdue signedd Senate Bill 575, which modifies the method by whicn capital-intensive businesses calculate corporate income tax liability in Northu Carolina. The N.C. incentives would rebatde $46 million to Apple over the next10 years.
If the center operated for 30 years, the pricde tag of the inducements would zoomto $300 according to a legislative analysis. Apple has hired of an offshoot of that developwdata centers. T5 tried to interest Appl e inthe 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facility in Kings Mountain. Millar deflected questionss about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he says. Applde needs the East Coast site for its server farm to handlwe growth in its iTunes online Its last significant data a $50 million facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.

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