The data center, if built in Maiden will bring at least 50 full time jobs to the community of 3,282, according to the terms of the building contract.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Speculation is high that Apple’s (www.apple.com) new, $1 billion data center will be located in the small town of Maiden, North Carolina, which will provide a major East Coast hub for its iTunes music store and iPhone app store.
According to local newspaper, the Hickory Daily Record, the Maiden Town Council will meet with representatives of the Catawba County Board of Commissioners and the county’s Economic Development Corporation next Monday to make an announcement, which will likely involve a high-profile tech company coming to Maiden. The data center, if built in Maiden will bring at least 50 full time jobs to the community of 3,282, according to the terms of the building contract.
Catawba County Economic Development Corp. president Scott Millar told the Hickory Daily Record that two sites near Maiden, suitable for data center construction, have been marketed as such. The sites include the 183-acre WestStar Mission Critical Business Park, which is in development, and a 156,000-square-foot former Carolina Mills building on a 100 acre lot.
The planned data center would easily be the company’s largest data center, eclipsing its 107,000 square-foot data center in Newark, acquired in 2006 for as much as $50 million.
In May, the Associated Press reported that the North Carolina government was taking measures to convince Apple to build the data center in the state, including a tax break of $46 million over the next decade, based on a leaked memo and anonymously interviewed official.
The North Carolina government has been known to offer tax breaks for data center projects in the past. For instance, in early 2007, the state offered Google about $100 million in tax incentives over 30 years for investing $600 million in a data center construction project in the small town of Lenoir.
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