Big tech brings big change, but not a boom in population
In the Catawba Valley region, Google and Apple data centers brought high expectations in the rural communities where they landed. But a decade later, the population of Catawba and Caldwell counties is largely unchanged.Caldwell County, which sits at the base of the western North Carolina mountains, was one of the places looking for growth. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, manufacturing’s continued decline struck a blow to the rural county’s local furniture […]
