The US state of North Carolina is offering Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), a tax exemption important figures if the apple company decides to open a server farm with an investment of 1.000 million dollars, for this to be carried out, the laws must be modified, this was announced by a state official who did not want to publish his name to Associated Press.
Some time before they had heard hearsay that the North Carolina judiciary wanted to make changes to the laws to benefit a specific company, it was not known which company they were referring to and if this is done, the location of server farm it could be Catawba and Cleveland counties.
Obviously, if these are modified leyes Not only would the Cupertino company benefit, but in general many of the large companies attracted by the tax exemption They would be located in poor areas of the state, with the logical benefits such as job creation; companies would save something like 46 million dollars in 10 years, starting from the base of a company that invests 1.000 million dollars in 9 years or so, so said a report in which it was not specified which company was they referred.
The judiciary believes that an investment of this size is well worth the change in leyes, although the server farm it would employ a little over 100 people. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it wouldn't be the first, in fact Google already have one server farm in that state and has benefited something like 260 million dollars to save in the next 30 years.
Of what we don't have noticia is the use that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), will give this server farm, it would not be uncommon for you to use it for copying corporate information or for expanding your store iTunes with more services and products, or who knows, to give you a change towards the Cloud Computing raising the power and versatility of MobileMe.
Via | Faq-Mac