As I recently relocated to North Carolina last August, this was great news to hear that was made official yesterday. The plan is to have a new datacenter in a town called Lenior … which is about a 15 minute drive up Highway 321 from where I reside in Hickory. The local economy is depressed … how depressed? Let’s just say you can get a three bedroom, 1 bath house for $24,000. And no, I didn’t leave out a zero. Now that is what I call a depressed market.
While the deal may bring up to $100 million for Google in terms of tax incentives, I do question how Google plans on staffing the center as the technical talent is really lacking in the area … I know as I have been trying to build our business with local people for months, and there just isn’t a strong pool to draw from.
All in all, this is great for the local area and Lenior could be a hot bed for real estate investing.
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