Apple Pays Couple $1.7m For 1 Acre Plot 215
itwbennett writes "Chris Nerney is blogging about Apple's $1.7 million purchase of a 1-acre lot in Maiden, N.C. where it plans to build a $1 billion, 500,000 sq. ft. data center. The couple who owned the land, and the home that sat on the land, Donnie and Kathy Fulbright (hereafter known as Apple's shrewdest investors) reportedly 'rejected two previous offers from Apple before being told to name their price,' says Nerney."
Fair market price (Score:4, Funny)
Good for them. I wonder why apple wanted it so bad?
fools! (Score:4, Funny)
Data Center? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Waiting to sell (Score:1, Funny)
Not a problem, Jobs will refund them $100 if they whine loudly enough.
Jobs/Pixar had a better idea (Score:5, Funny)
What, so they were too good to attach a bunch of balloons to their house and fly it away? Greedy bastards.
Re:Fair market price (Score:5, Funny)
Good for them. I wonder why apple wanted it so bad?
I wonder why Slashdot posts summaries.
Re:More details (Score:1, Funny)
Really, why in the world would anyone have submitted a crummy, abbreviated blog post over a decent article from a reputable source?
Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here.
Re:I have a stupid question. (Score:3, Funny)
Orchard with a magic RDF & ancient Indian ceme (Score:5, Funny)
Since times immemorial it has been a magic orchard with a natural Reality Distortion Field of its own? ;-)
They even say if you dig RF-undead iPhone4s deep enough beneath the ancient apple trees, sometimes they return white-washed and fixed so you can hold them any way you like...
Re:Fair market price (Score:2, Funny)
To have a place for the links we use to melt down the servers. :-)
Combating what? (Score:3, Funny)
>>Combating Joblessness
Google has hired more than 80 employees at the site, said spokeswoman Emily Wood....<<
Sounds to me like the town of Maiden is combating Jobslessness.