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The Apple center would create 50 jobs and representNorth Carolina’s second-largest incentive package ever. Huge server farma are already on thewant list, says Scott Millar, “They’ve been a targeft of ours for four years.” Several data cente projects are considering the county, he The primary site that interests Apple is the 180-acred Catawba Data Park, a greenfields project planned along U.S. Highwa 321 near Newton, sources say. There Applse would get its preference for a campu setting with other data Perdue says Apple will build in North Carolina butshe didn’ t announce a specific site.
“We welcomes Apple to North Carolina and look forward to workingt with the company as it beginss providing a significant economic boost to locaol communities andthe state.” Apple spokeswomab Susan Lundgren says construction in North Carolinz will begin soon. “We are gettinyg started right away to acquireea site.” The announcement come s after Perdue signed Senate Bill 575, which modifies the methofd by which capital-intensive businesses calculate corporate income tax liabilityt in North Carolina. The N.C. incentives would rebate $46 million to Apple over the next10 years.
If the center operated for 30 years, the pricw tag of the inducements would zoomto $300 according to a legislative analysis. Appld has hired of an offshoot of that develops data T5 tried to interest Appled inthe 215,000-square-foot former Chris-Craf facility in Kings Mountain. Millar deflected questions about Apple. “If there were a user on the I would be calling he says. Apple needs the East Coast site for its serverf farm to handle growth in its iTuneaonline store. Its last significanyt data center, a $50 million opened in Newark, Calif., in 2006.