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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and represenytNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive packagse ever. Huge server farms are alreadhy on thewant list, says Scott Millar, president. “They’ve been a targert of ours for four years.” Several data center projecta are consideringthe county, he says. The primary site that interestas Apple isthe 180-acre Catawba Data a greenfield project planned along U.S. Highway 321 near sources say.
There Apple would get its preference for a campus setting with other data Perdue says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’t announce a specific “We welcome Apple to North Carolinaz and look forward to working with the companuy as it begins providing a significant economicf boost to local communities and the Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says construction in Nortjh Carolina will begin soon. “We are getting startee right away to acquire a The announcement comes after Perdue signed SenatwBill 575, which modifies the method by whicjh capital-intensive businesses calculate corporate income tax liabilityg in North Carolina. The N.C.
incentives would rebate $46 milliob to Apple over the next 10 If the center operated for30 years, the pricde tag of the inducements would zoom to $300 according to a legislative analysis. Apple has hirexd of Atlanta, an offshoot of that developasdata centers. T5 tried to interest Apple in the 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facility in Kings Millar deflected questionsabout Apple. “If therw were a user on the hook, I woulde be calling you,” he says. Apple needs the East Coasrt site for its server farm to handle growtyh in its iTunesonline store. Its last significangt data center, a $50 million facility, opened in Calif., in 2006.