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Microsoft Expanding in North Carolina to Build Engineering & Quantum Computing Businesses

By IQT News posted 30 Oct 2019

(APNews) Microsoft Corp. is expanding its North Carolina footprint by hiring new workers to build out its engineering and quantum computing businesses. The software maker and Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Friday that the $23 million expansion in Charlotte aims to create 430 new jobs by 2023.
The Redmond, Washington-based company could receive $8.5 million in state incentives over time if its meets job-creation and investment goals. A state panel awarded an incentives deal to Microsoft minutes before Microsoft executives and Cooper unveiled the expansion at a Charlotte event. The state Commerce Department says North Carolina won out over competing offers from Irving, Texas and Fargo, North Dakota.

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