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Major data centers skip over Mecklenburg County (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 19,2010

Google this: western North Carolina is quickly becoming a hot spot to locate a data center. With companies such as Facebook, Apple, Wipro and, of course, Google investing millions in smaller, more rural towns to develop sites into large data centers, the region is becoming a technological corridor attractive to similar companies. Mecklenburg County, though, [...]


Wipro chooses Cleveland County for data center

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 16,2010

New Jersey-based Infocrossing said it will open a $75 million data center in Cleveland County, creating 17 technology jobs during the next four years. Infocrossing, an information technology company, is part of India-based Wipro Co. The announcement comes after Facebook this month said it will build a $450 million data center in Rutherford County in a project expected [...]