Apple to one billion U.S. dollars for the construction of data centers

Apple Inc. plans to invest one billion U.S. dollars to build a data center to meet the needs of iTunes users, such as the increasing demand for intensive visit, a few days ago, the U.S. states launch Apple preferential measures to attract the investment projects, particularly in the areas of North Carolina especially.
Prior to this, the success of North Carolina to persuade Google to cost 600 million U.S. dollars to deploy the data center in the state, although the policy is preferential, but the data center part of the state led to less-developed regional economy and employment. Therefore, the investment projects for Apple, North Carolina is also coveted.

It is reported that some Members of North Carolina is working on a bill, if Apple one billion U.S. dollars investment in the data center is located in the state, it will be millions of dollars in tax incentives have been allocated to help. It is reported that if Apple can data center location in the less affluent or Catawba Cleveland, In that case, Apple will receive 46 million U.S. dollars one-time funding assistance, as well as the next three years amounted to 260 million U.S. dollars of tax incentives.

And compared to other investment projects, data centers are not many jobs, but these facilities consume a lot of electricity, the other from the local telecom operators to purchase a large number of Internet backbone bandwidth, in addition to the technical staff of a higher quality requirements, So local officials are very optimistic about the large-scale data center-related areas of the economy pulling effect.

In times of economic recession, the U.S. state governments are sparing no effort for a variety of investment projects. According to reports earlier this month, Yahoo plans in the United States the most economically developed north-eastern part of the investment to build a data center, covering an area of up to more than 5000 square meters, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and so also the development of a variety of preferential policies to attract investment in Yahoo.