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		<title>AZ not CA nabs giant new Apple center</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[As noted in my article today, &#8220;CA tech juggernaut jumps above rest of state,&#8221; the Silicon Valley wizards are doing well &#8212; even as manufacturing jobs have been halved since]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignright  wp-image-73219" src="http://calwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mesa-arizona-postcard.png" alt="Mesa, arizona postcard" width="299" height="181" srcset="https://calwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mesa-arizona-postcard.png 360w, https://calwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mesa-arizona-postcard-300x182.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px" />As noted in my article today, &#8220;<a href="http://calwatchdog.com/2015/02/02/ca-tech-juggernaut-jumps-above-rest-of-state/">CA tech juggernaut jumps above rest of state</a>,&#8221; the Silicon Valley wizards are doing well &#8212; even as manufacturing jobs have been halved since 1990.</p>
<p>This is emphasized by a new development: Apple is building a giant new &#8220;command center&#8221; not in California, but Arizona. <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/102389945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reported CNBC</a>:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><a class="inline_quotes" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/AAPL" target="_self" data-gdsid="8016" data-inline-quote-symbol="AAPL" rel="noopener">Apple</a> will invest $2 billion to build up a data center in Mesa, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/10000547" target="_self" rel="noopener">Arizona</a>, the company announced Monday.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The new facility—which will serve as a command center for the company&#8217;s global networks—is expected to employ 150 full-time Apple employees and will hire 300 to 500 construction and trade jobs, according to a news release from Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. The tech giant said it would be one of the largest investments it has ever made.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Apple has pledged to completely power the facility with renewable energy, building out solar projects in the process.</em></p>
<p>All that solar power could have helped California with its renewable projects as mandated by<a href="http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AB 32</a> and other California environmental laws.</p>
<p>Yet complying with those laws also is expensive, something lawmakers never seem to take into account. Make one mistake in compliance and you&#8217;re hit with massive fines.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s California&#8217;s massive tax extractions, something much less in Arizona. The cost of living for Apple&#8217;s workers also will be less. The median price for a home in Mesa is about <a href="http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Mesa-AZ/32906732_zpid/19331_rid/days_sort/33.513633,-111.555691,33.277158,-111.919613_rect/11_zm/1_fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$180,000</a>, according to Zillow.com. In Fremont, the last place Apple had a factory in California before it closed in 1993, it&#8217;s $<a href="http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Fremont-CA/25005205_zpid/11540_rid/days_sort/37.641694,-121.826534,37.417073,-122.190456_rect/11_zm/1_fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">754,000</a> &#8212; more than four times as much.</p>
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