Facebook Dons Cowboy Boots, Rides Into Desert For Economic Rescue

‘Keeping the Town Alive’

Facebook employs 55 people in its data center — only five more than Apple employs at its facility in Maiden, North Carolina. But according to Ken Patchett, about 70 percent of those jobs are staffed by locals, and this is only one way the facility feeds the local economy. Construction brings in additional jobs, and as Cart points out, new jobs aren’t the only benefit a business can bring to a community.

By Cade Metz

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