OPPORTUNITY RISING
Accolades & Advantages
- Lenoir ranked least expensive U.S. location*
- NC #3 Best Business Climate, Site Selection magazine
- Generous incentives and tax credits
- No inventory or intangibles taxes
- Low or no municipal income taxes
- Industrial revenue bond financing
- Right-to-work state, no private-sector union presence
- 75 minutes to domestic and international air hub – Charlotte Douglas International Airport
- Appealing quality of life factors
- Lenoir among “Next Great Adventure Towns,” National Geographic Adventure magazine
*Lowest projected annual operating costs out of 45 U.S. locations with less than 50,000 population; Boyd Group Site Consultants, Princeton, NJ
Data Centers
Caldwell County sits at the heart of a region that’s fast becoming a data center hot spot. The likes of Google, Apple and Facebook found what they were looking for here, and so can you:
- Home of Google Data Center and CentriLogic Data Center
- Apple and Facebook Data Centers nearby
- Part of the North Carolina Data Center Corridor
- Special tax incentives for data center, software operations
- Abundant, low cost electricity from multiple providers
- Low risk of natural or civil disasters
- Mild summers ease cooling requirements
- Access to bandwidth and fiber (6 providers)
- Customized job-training is free to qualifying businesses
- VMware Academy at Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute
- 30 minutes to Appalachian State University (ASU)
- ASU North Carolina Center for Engineering Technologies in Hickory
- 90 minutes to University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNCC)
“Caldwell County has proven to be an outstanding location for Google’s North Carolina data center. It has the right combination of available resources (power, water, land), a strong business environment, great quality of life, and unique attributes such as the customized job training program available through CCC&TI.”
Enoch MoellerOperations ManagerGoogle, Inc
“Finding an area that had already been chosen by Google as a datacenter location, with a megawatt scale infrastructure, was a win-win combination for us. With the county’s help we renovated an existing facility and had an operational datacenter in six months. Seeing Apple announce its nearby datacenter shortly thereafter reaffirmed our belief that Caldwell County is one of the best locations on the east coast to build and operate a datacenter.”
William GrohRegional Vice President CentriLogic
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