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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and represenNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive packagse ever. Huge server farms are alreadty on thewant list, says Scott Millar, “They’ve been a target of ours for four Several data center projects are consideringf the county, he says. The primary site that interests Apple isthe 180-acre Catawba Data Park, a greenfield project plannedc along U.S. Highway 321 near sources say. There Apple woulc get its preference for a campus settingg with otherdata centers. Perdue says Appld will build in North Carolinaz butshe didn’t announce a specificx site.
“We welcome Apple to Northu Carolina and look forward to working with the company as it beginsd providing a significant economic boost to local communities and the Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgrebn says construction in North Carolinqa willbegin soon. “We are getting started right away to acquire a The announcement comes after Perdue signed SenateBill 575, which modifies the method by which capital-intensive businessesx calculate corporate income tax liability in North The N.C. incentives would rebate $46 milliob to Apple over the next 10 If the center operated for 30 the price tag of the inducementsw would zoomto $300 million, according to a legislativse analysis.
Apple has hired of Atlanta, an offshoot of that develop data centers. T5 tried to interestf Apple inthe 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Crafr facility in Kings Mountain. Millar deflected questione about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he Apple needs the East Coast site for its servetr farm to handle growth in its iTunees online store. Its last significanr data center, a $50 million facility, openefd in Newark, Calif., in 2006.