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But there's no reason to time an announcement because of North Carolina.

NYC has big media companies and their CEOs, news media and their taping studios, and Wall Street.

North Carolina has a big building full of Apple's servers. (If it's even up and running yet.) You don't set the time for a press campaign based on a big building full of hardware.

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Unless Jobs is going to be on streaming video giving a tour of the facility, say, like he did when they opened the first retail store - though that was a pre-recorded video, not live. So I wouldn't bet on this, but it seems like a possibility.

A store is someplace Apple needs people to visit, so it would make sense for Jobs to do something like that, to generate interest.

From the point of view of an iTunes user, the NC data center is irrelevant. It's a hidden implementation detail. The iTunes store could be running on a G4 Mac Cube under Steve Jobs' desk, for all it matters.

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