New Apple North Carolina Data Center Slated to Provide Support for iPhone, iTunes
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009 -- Apple will build its first east coast data center in North Carolina, a $1 billion, 500,000 sq. ft. facility that should be completed by the end of 2010, reports charlotteobserver.com.
The data farm, to be located in a 183-acre business park 45 miles north-west of Charlotte, will "likely to support iTunes and the iPhone app store," the website said.
The Catawba County Economic Development Corporation lured Apple to the site near Maiden -- the "Biggest Little Football Town in the World," population around 3,500 -- with $46 million in tax breaks over 10 years.
For its part, charlotteobserver.com reports, Apple has pledged to hire 50 full-time employees. The center is expected to bring 250 indirect jobs and the impact could eventually be 3,000 jobs in related industries, local officials are quoted as predicting.
Nearby Caldwell County landed its own big fish in 2007, when $260 million in incentives over 30 years brought Google to Lenoir to invest $600 in a data center.
(Apple and Google share two directors, Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive of Google, and Arthur Levinson, former chief executive of Genentech.)
Construction of the Apple North Carolina data center is set to begin in August, says charlotteobserver.com. [PAB]
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