Data Center Locations: North America
North Carolina
The North Carolina Department of Commerce says you only have to look at the big names that call North Carolina home to understand its market success
ISDN, T-3, Frame Relay In North Carolina we consider access to fiber – which comes at a low cost and from multiple sources – a given. Telecommunications companies throughout the state offer the basics: 100% digital switching in digital offices, feeder routes with fiber optic transmission capabilities and central offices on a fiber ring. They also offer items that make doing business easier: route diversity between central offices and ‘self-healing’ networks, numerous Points of Presence, and 30-60-90 day installations of major fiber optics.
Quality of life and talent North Carolina - a place big names already call home
In today’s global economy, people are the most important asset to any company and North Carolina gives the company and its employees what they need to flourish.
Choosing to bring your business to North Carolina means you join a long list of distinguished names that already call the state of North Carolina home.
IBM opened its most technologically advanced green data center in Research Triangle Park in February 2010. NetApp, a storage vendor, opened the first dynamic data center to receive Energy Star rating in Research Triangle Park in 2009. Apple constructed a 500,000 sq ft facility, among the world’s largest, for cloud computing. Google built a specialized US$600m data center in Lenior that today runs services such as the Google search engine, Gmail, and Google Maps. Facebook is investing US$450m in a data center in Rutherford County. And the list goes on.
That’s good company With our well-trained workforce,
existing
power grid with excess capacity and a business-friendly climate with an attractive tax structure, it’s no wonder that data centers thrive in North Carolina.
North Carolina has been recognized by the consulting firm Tishman Technologies as the best place in the US to locate a data center. Our strong existing IT infrastructure as well as our well-trained workforce continues to attract
Duke’s energy mix is roughly 50% coal and 50% nuclear, which is often attractive to companies interested in mitigating their exposure to carbon.
And for those companies that do make limiting their carbon footprint a priority, the state is the first and only in the southeastern US to enact a mandatory Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard.
and keep data centers here. When you add in a power grid that has plenty of capacity to grow, you can see why data centers flourish here.
Progressive power providers North Carolina is home to two investor- owned utilities: Duke Energy and Progress Energy. These progressive power providers put their dependable infrastructure to work to serve the needs of their customers today and into the future. Their reliability comes from a highly connected system that provides multiple paths, and as a result they have never sustained a cascading event.
Both companies add to the competitive
advantage North Carolina enjoys with power rates below the national average, economic development riders and savings through reduced off-peak rates.
Universities, community colleges and other training programs, coupled with a growing population, provide a workforce with the skills that are in demand globally. The low cost of living makes it easier for our residents to take part in and enjoy our culture-rich history, world- class sports events and varied recreational activities. The cost of housing, utilities, supplies and groceries, transportation and healthcare are all below the national average.
It all comes down to this: North Carolina offers an exceptional quality of life that contributes to a highly desirable place for businesses to attract and keep skilled workers.
Business climate The state offers numerous tax programs to promote economic development, including data centers and related industries. For example, sales of electricity and eligible business
property to an internet service
provider or web search portal business that invests at least US$250m in private funds are exempt from sales and use tax.
Sales of machinery and equipment that are to be located and used in an eligible data center are also exempt from sales and use tax but are subject to a 1% privilege tax at a maximum of US$80 per article when a minimum investment is made. n
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