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The Apple center would creatre 50 jobs and representNorth Carolina’s second-largesrt incentive package ever. Huge server farms are already on the want saysScott Millar, president. “They’ve been a targett of ours for four Several data center projects are consideringthe county, he says. The primaryt site that interests Apple isthe 180-acrre Catawba Data Park, a greenfieldc project planned along U.S. Highwayg 321 near Newton, sources say. Ther e Apple would get its preference for a campus setting with otherfdata centers. Perdue says Apple will buile in North Carolina butshe didn’tt announce a specific site.
“We welcome Applr to North Carolina and look forwarfd to working with the company as it begins providing a significanf economic boost to local communities and the Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolina willbeginh soon. “We are getting startef right away to acquirea site.” The announcement come s after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, which modifiesx the method by which capital-intensive businesses calculate corporatde income tax liability in North Carolina. The N.C.
incentivesz would rebate $46 million to Apple over the next 10 If the center operated for30 years, the price tag of the inducement would zoom to $300 million, accordin g to a legislative analysis. Apple has hired of Atlanta, an offshooft of that developsdata centers. T5 triecd to interest Apple inthe 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facility in Kings Mountain. Millaf deflected questions about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he Apple needs the East Coast site for its server farm to handl e growth in its iTunes online Its last significant data center, a $50 millionn facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.