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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and represenfNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive packagd ever. Huge server farms are alreadyy on thewant list, says Scott president. “They’ve been a target of ours for four Several data center projects are consideringvthe county, he says. The primary site that interestss Apple isthe 180-acre Catawba Data a greenfield project planned along U.S. Highway 321 near Newton, sources say. There Apple would get its preferences for a campus setting with other data Perdue says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’ft announce a specific site.
“We welcome Applew to North Carolina and look forward to working with the companyu as it begins providing a significant economicc boost to local communities and the Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says constructiomn in North Carolina willbegin soon. “We are gettinfg started right away to acquirea site.” The announcemenr comes after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, which modifies the methox by which capital-intensive businessesw calculate corporate income tax liability in North The N.C. incentives would rebate $46 milliohn to Apple over the next10 years.
If the cente operated for 30 years, the price tag of the inducementzs would zoomto $300 according to a legislative analysis. Appls has hired of Atlanta, an offshoott of that developsdata centers. T5 triexd to interest Apple inthe 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facilit y in Kings Mountain. Millar deflected questions abourt Apple. “If there were a user on the hook, I woulde be calling you,” he says. Apple needw the East Coast site for its servedr farm to handle growth in its iTunes online Its last significantdata center, a $50 milliomn facility, opened in Newark, in 2006.