Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Apple may drop into Catawba County - Kansas City Business Journal:

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The Apple center would created 50 jobs and representNorthh Carolina’s second-largest incentive package ever. Huge server farmsd are already on thewant list, says Scott Millar, president. “They’ves been a target of ours for four years.” Several data center projects are considerinhthe county, he The primary site that interesta Apple is the 180-acrse Catawba Data Park, a greenfield project planned along U.S. Highway 321 near sources say. There Apple would get its preferencs for a campus setting with otherdata centers. Perdue says Applse will build in North Carolina butshe didn’r announce a specific site.
“Wee welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forwarxd to working with the company as it begins providintg a significant economic boost to locall communities andthe state.” Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolinaa will begin soon. “We are getting startedc right away to acquire a The announcement comes after Perdue signed SenateBill 575, which modifies the method by which capital-intensive businesses calculated corporate income tax liabilitu in North Carolina. The N.C. incentives woul d rebate $46 million to Applew over the next10 years.
If the cente r operated for 30 years, the prics tag of the inducements would zoomto $300 according to a legislatives analysis. Apple has hired of Atlanta, an offshootg of that developsdata centers. T5 tried to interesrt Apple inthe 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facility in Kingsx Mountain. Millar deflected questions abourt Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he Apple needs the East Coast site for its server farm to handlse growth in its iTunes online store. Its last significantt data center, a $50 million opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.

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