Coincidence? Maybe. After all, Wilson County has several available industrial sites that could catch the attention of a new industry. These closed-door meetings are not all that rare, and most of them never result in anything.
Still ... Wilson has what a company like Apple wants: a super-high-speed, state-of-the-art fiber optic network that would be ideal for a server farm such as the one Apple wants to build somewhere in North Carolina, or perhaps in another Southeastern state. Apple's server farm is just the sort of high-tech industrial client the city of Wilson had hoped to attract with its gamble on a $28 million fiber-to-the-home network. Apple needs a "big pipe" to send its iTunes songs, television shows and movies to customers. Wilson's 100 MB upload/download speeds provide that big pipe, and it's already in place.
I have no idea whether there is a connection between the state's provision for tax advantages for Apple and Wilson's fiber network, but it would make sense for Apple to look at what Wilson has to offer.
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apple in wilson? are you insane?
....western carolina dude.
Wilson would never attract the likes of apple. Not enough smart people. Just a bunch of people running around whining they got shafted.
Good try though. (btw, I hope i jinx the wnc assumption however)
I honestly doubt Wilson's $28 million (and growing) fiber-to-the-home network with "100 MB upload/download speeds" (not exactly factual), would be the reason for choosing Wilson.
What would be more important is how much money the municipalities -- via these Incentive Factories such as the Wilson Economic Council (or whatever they call themselves) and their clandestine fundraising subsidiary can bribe them with to come here.
I also read part of this legislation pending in Raleigh not only sweetens those deals it sours them too. With worker and investment safeguards. Something we haven't seen much of yet. And something that is LONG overdue.
They will take one look at our high utilities and run for the hills.
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