Google to Build Data Center in N.C.
Posted on: Friday, 19 January 2007, 12:00 CST
By ELIZABETH DUNBAR
RALEIGH, N.C. - Search engine giant Google Inc. plans to spend $600 million to build a data center in North Carolina, state officials and the company said Friday.
The so-called "server farm" will eventually employ 210 people in a region hit hard in recent years by layoffs in the furniture and textile industries.
"This company will provide hundreds of good-paying, knowledge-based jobs that North Carolinas citizens want," Gov. Mike Easley said in a statement. "It will help reinvigorate an area hard hit by the loss of furniture and textile jobs with 21st century opportunities."
The state will give the company $4.8 million as part of a total incentives package that could reach more than $100 million.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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