Amazon's search for a second headquarters has set off a bidding war in state capitals across the nation. But it has also may have inspired another tech giant to take a starkly different path to finding a new corporate home.
On the same day Amazon listed metro Atlanta as one of 20 finalists for its massive development, Apple confirmed through a spokesman it would not hold an open bidding process for a new campus it announced this week.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told ABC News he didn't want "an auction kind of process" and that the company has already quietly pared down its list of potential sites.
The new Apple campus isn’t the 50,000-job bonanza that Amazon’s $5 billion project promises. But the company said the new site will be a part of a $30 billion spending plan that will create 20,000 jobs over the next five years.
Georgia is sure to try to leverage the same assets that helped land it on Amazon's list of finalists to ty to lure Apple, including Georgia Tech's steady churn of computer programming graduates and Atlanta's logistics backbone.
Apple seems unlikely to locate a second campus in California or Texas, where it already has facilities, but it has said little else about where it is searching.
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