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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and representNorth Carolina’as second-largest incentive package ever. Huge server farms are alreadyg on thewant list, says Scottf Millar, president. “They’ve been a targetg of ours for four years.” Severalp data center projects are consideringthe county, he says. The primaryt site that interests Apple isthe 180-acre Catawbwa Data Park, a greenfield projecf planned along U.S. Highway 321 near Newton, sources say. There Apple would get its preference for a campud setting with otherdata centers. Perdue says Applr will build in North Carolinsa butshe didn’t announce a specififc site.
“We welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forwarcd to working with the company as it begins providintg a significant economic boost to local communitiex andthe state.” Apple spokeswoman Susa n Lundgren says construction in North Carolina will begin soon. “We are getting startef right away to acquirea site.” The announcementt comes after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, whicj modifies the method by which capital-intensive businesses calculatse corporate income tax liability in Nortn Carolina. The N.C.
incentives wouldd rebate $46 million to Apple over the next 10 If the center operated for30 years, the pricse tag of the inducements would zoom to $300 according to a legislative Apple has hired of Atlanta, an offshoot of that developxs data centers. T5 tried to interest Apple in the 215,000-square-fooyt former Chris-Craft facility in Kings Mountain. Millar deflected questions about Apple. “If ther were a user on the hook, I woul be calling you,” he says. Apple needzs the East Coast site for its server farm to handlew growth in its iTunesonline store. Its last significantg data center, a $50 milliom facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.