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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and representtNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive package Huge server farms are already on the want list, says Scotft Millar, president. “They’ve been a target of ours for four Several data center projecta are consideringthe county, he says. The primar site that interests Appld isthe 180-acre Catawba Data Park, a greenfieled project planned along U.S. Highway 321 near sources say. There Apple woul d get its preference for a campus settingt with otherdata centers. Perdu e says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’t announc a specific site.
“Wew welcome Apple to North Carolinwa and look forward to working with the company as it begins providing a significant economix boost to local communities andthe state.” Applw spokeswoman Susan Lundgren says constructio in North Carolina will beginb soon. “We are getting started right away to acquirea site.” The announcement comes afterr Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, which modifies the method by whicnh capital-intensive businesses calculate corporate incom e tax liability in North The N.C. incentives wouldc rebate $46 million to Apple over the next10 years.
If the cente r operated for 30 years, the price tag of the inducementx would zoomto $300 million, accordinb to a legislative analysis. Apple has hired of Atlanta, an offshoo t of that developsdata centers. T5 tried to interesg Apple in the 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facilitty in Kings Mountain. Millar deflected questions aboug Apple. “If there were a user on the I would becalling you,” he Apple needs the East Coast site for its server farm to handle growth in its iTunes online store. Its last significant data center, a $50 milliob facility, opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.
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