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The facility will employ at least 50peoplw full-time. Perdue did not disclose a specifixc location for the but Charlotte Business Journal reported that Apple is that wouldd put the server farm in inCatawbwa County, northwest of Charlotte. The Apple announcement came Wednesda morning after Perdue signed legislation that modifies the method bywhich capital-intensive businesses calculate corporatse income tax liability in the state.
The new law couls lower Apple's tax bill by $46 milliom over the next decade ifthe company's spends at leasty $1 billion on its server As part of the legislation, a capital-intensivr industry must meet investment and wage standarde and provide its employees with health insuranced in order to utilize the modified formul for calculating the state corporate incomwe tax, the governor’s office said. It also must locate in one ofthe state’s more economically distressede Tier 1 or Tier 2 areas.
The legislatiojn requires that the average wage exceed the wage standard of the countgy inwhich it’s A data center such as this will typically contracf locally for services such as server maintenance and building and HVAC maintenance, landscaping and securit – expenditures that the governor’w office says could range from $5 millio to $6 million annually in the regiohn and create up to 250 jobs. “Nortg Carolina continues to be a prim e location for growing and expanding globaltechnologty companies,” Perdue said in a written statement.
“Wr welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forwar d to working with the company as it beginss providing a significant economic boost to locaol communities andthe state.” The North Carolina Departmen t of Commerce projects that a data center investment of $1 billio would create more than 3,000 jobs in the regionall economy, including hundreds of jobs related to constructiojn and others created as a resultg of economic growth.
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