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American Express to Build in North Carolina

Posted By Rich Miller On May 20, 2010 @ 2:33 pm In Research Triangle | 2 Comments

Local economic development officials in North Carolina are confirming that American Express will build a large data center in Guilford County. The financial services company plans to build a $400 million center that would employ up to 150 people and open sometime in 2012, according to the Greensboro News-Record [1].

“It is confirmed that American Express is coming here,” Pat Danahy, president and CEO of the Greensboro Partnership, told the paper. “This is a big deal.”

American Express is known to also have data centers in Phoenix [2] and Minneapolis [3]. The $400 million project is the most recent in a series of high-profile data center projects that have chosen to locate in North Carolina. Here’s a look at some of our previous coverage:

About Rich Miller [9]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] Greensboro News-Record: http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/05/20/article/amex_coming_to_eastern_guilford

[2] Phoenix: http://www.mcgough.com/projects.asp?id=177&c=Corporate/Office

[3] Minneapolis: http://www.specialtyfinishes.com/amexp.htm

[4] It’s Official: Apple iDataCenter to North Carolina: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../archives/2009/06/03/its-official-apple-to-north-carolina/

[5] Inside IBM’s North Carolina Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../archives/2010/02/05/video-inside-ibms-north-carolina-data-center/

[6] Google Picks N.C. for $600 Million Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../archives/2007/01/19/google-picks-nc-for-600m-data-center/

[7] T5 Targets North Carolina for Development: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../archives/2009/12/23/t5-targets-north-carolina-for-development/

[8] The Apple-Google Data Center Corridor: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../archives/2009/08/04/the-apple-google-data-center-corridor/

[9] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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