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Apple Inc will build a $1.375 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa, Apple and state officials said on Thursday, with $207.8 million in incentives approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority and Waukee city council.
Apple will purchase 2,000 acres (8.09 square km) of land in Waukee, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Des Moines, to build two data centers. The company will receive a $19.65 million investment tax credit for creating 50 jobs.
Apple said the project will generate more than 550 jobs in construction and operations, but did not specify how many of those jobs would be long-term positions.
Speaking alongside Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said the facility "will create hundreds of jobs for people in Iowa from construction to engineering."
Cook said Apple will contribute up to $100 million toward a "public improvement fund" for the city of Waukee, adding the first project supported by the fund will be a youth sports complex that "will be open to all."
It's nice that they won't be outsourcing the data mining of all your personal information and metadata. Merica!
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iowa-idUSKCN1B422L
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @10:27PM (1 child)
Wow 200million to produce 50 permanent jobs. That works out to 4million a job. That means they could pay 50 people 60k a year for 65 years.
Typical trump state.... will be good for slave labor and sex tourism for visiting blue staters in a few decades
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:04AM
IMHO, "public servants" who agree to this kind of thing deserve some prison time as it's clear bribery was involved. No rational thinking person would approve this.
The fact that the power is generated by coal just makes things much worse.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.