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The Apple center would createe 50 jobs and representNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive package ever. Huge servert farms are already on thewant list, says Scotg Millar, president. “They’ve been a target of ours for four Several data center projects are consideringythe county, he says. The primary site that interests Applee isthe 180-acre Catawba Data Park, a greenfield projec planned along U.S. Highway 321 near sources say. There Apple would get its preference for a campues setting with otherdata centers. Perdue says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’tr announce a specific site.
“We welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forward to working with the company as it beginsw providing a significant economic boostt to local communities andthe state.” Apple spokeswoman Susa Lundgren says construction in North Carolinqa will begin soon. “We are getting started rightf away to acquirea site.” The announcemen comes after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, which modifies the method by which capital-intensive businessez calculate corporate income tax liabilitty in North Carolina. The N.C. incentives would rebate $46 million to Appl e over the next10 years.
If the center operated for 30 the price tag of the inducements woulx zoomto $300 million, accordingb to a legislative analysis. Apple has hiredx of Atlanta, an offshoot of that developd data centers. T5 tried to interest Apple in the 215,000-square-foog former Chris-Craft facility in Kinge Mountain. Millar deflected questions about Apple. “If therde were a user on the hook, I woulrd be calling you,” he says. Apple needxs the East Coast site for its servetr farm to handle growth in its iTunesonlind store. Its last significant data center, a $50 millionm facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.
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