I feel like Amazon's HQ2 search is going to open the floodgates for tech companies asking for public incentives. Tech companies in the Bay Area have been creating tens of thousands of jobs for years without asking for much publicly. Expect that to change now.
An Apple employee tells KOLO 8 the new facility will be a location where Apple filters computers through on their way to the new data center on USA Parkway and another center in Arizona."
It's basically datacenter machine staging. Good jobs I'm sure, hardly a second headquarters.
http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Groundbreaking-set-for-do...
> The company plans to establish an Apple campus in a new location, which will initially house technical support for customers. The location of this new facility will be announced later in the year.
The Reno facility is separate.
It is a hedging against increasingly expensive work force.
Key word being "initially."
Austin is where many of their support workers are now, as well as engineers. Apple's main Cupertino campus is 2.8 million sq.ft., but the Austin campus is also huge at 1.1 million sq.ft. for the main set of buildings and another 216K for a smaller campus in southwest Austin.
So is this announcement for a third campus, or another expansion in Austin? I guess time--and incentives--will tell.
Well when ya all but purchase support from all the mayors, aldermen, district supervisors, judges, etc, kinda negates your need to ask for anything.