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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and represent North Carolina’s second-largest incentive package Huge server farms are already on the want says Scott Millar, president. “They’vew been a target of ours for four Several data center projects are considerinfthe county, he says. The primary site that interestes Apple isthe 180-acre Catawba Data a greenfield project planned along U.S. Highwayu 321 near Newton, sources say.
There Applr would get its preference for a campus setting with other data Perdue says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’t announce a specific “We welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forwars to working with the company as it beginss providing a significant economi c boost to local communities and the Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolinza will begin soon. “We are getting started right away to acquirwa site.” The announcement comes after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, which modifies the method by which capital-intensive businessesx calculate corporate income tax liabilityg in North Carolina. The N.C.
incentiveas would rebate $46 million to Apple over the next 10 If the center operated for30 years, the pricse tag of the inducements would zoom to $300 million, according to a legislative analysis. Apple has hiredf of Atlanta, an offshoot of that develops data T5 tried to interest Apple inthe 215,000-square-foot formedr Chris-Craft facility in Kings Mountain. Millar deflectedc questions about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he says. Applr needs the East Coast site for its serverr farm to handle growth in its iTuneasonline store. Its last significangt data center, a $50 million opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.