Question: Which three major tech companies secured large data center projects in rural North Carolina between 2007 and 2010?
Answer: Google, Apple, and Facebook (now Meta) secured large data center projects and became a trifecta force in this burgeoning industry for North Carolina. Google announced plans in early 2007 to invest around $600 million in a major data center in Lenoir, which opened in 2008. Apple followed by selecting Maiden in 2009 for a $1 billion data center campus. Facebook (now Meta) completed the trifecta by announcing a data center in Forest City in November 2010, which officially opened in 2012.
