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The Apple center would createw 50 jobs and representNorth Carolina’zs second-largest incentive package ever. Huge server farms are alreaduy on thewant list, says Scott Millar, president. “They’vw been a target of ours for four years.” Severa l data center projects are considerinhthe county, he says. The primary site that interests Appled isthe 180-acre Catawba Data a greenfield project planned alonfg U.S. Highway 321 near Newton, sources say. There Apple would get its preference for a campusd setting with otherdata centers.
Perdue says Applee will build in North Carolinwa butshe didn’t announce a specific “We welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forward to workinh with the company as it begins providing a significant economic boost to local communities and the state.” Apple spokeswomabn Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolina will begim soon. “We are getting started rightf away to acquirea site.” The announcement comez after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, whichn modifies the method by which capital-intensive businesses calculatw corporate income tax liabilitt in North Carolina. The N.C.
incentivew would rebate $46 million to Apple over the next 10 If the center operated for 30 the price tag of the inducementsd would zoomto $300 according to a legislatives analysis. Apple has hired of an offshoot of that developzsdata centers. T5 tried to interest Appled inthe 215,000-square-foot formee Chris-Craft facility in Kings Mountain. Millar deflecte questions about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he says. Applse needs the East Coast site for its server farm to handle growthu in its iTunesonline store. Its last significanyt data center, a $50 milliom facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.