Business Facilities - December 2007 - (Page 23) tal investment totals, and then averaged the two scores for each state into a single subtotal. In order to level the playing field, we applied a bonus or penalty to each state’s score based on its population relative to the jobs and investment projections, giving an edge to small states that did unusually well. We further scaled all total scores into a final score between zero and 100. (The state on top will always have a final score of 100.) Even with the adjustments made for population, the state of Texas won by a huge margin; the next highest score of 82 went to Alabama, followed by Michigan (70.2), Louisiana (68.1), and Connecticut (59.8). (See the chart on page 55 for more infor- mation on the projects these states submitted.) The five expansion projects that Texas entered in the first subcategory—jobs created—were Rackspace Managed Hosting, with 5,000 jobs; Fidelity, with 1,535 jobs; Maxim Integrated Products, with 1,000 jobs; Fluor Corporation, with 1,000 jobs; and Dimensional Fund Advisors, with 800 jobs. The most impressive of the lot, Rackspace, was announced this summer. The global managed hosting company, based in San Anto- The South Texas Project (STP) nuclear power station in Matagorda County, TX is the location of NRG Energy, Inc.’s expansion, which will involve two new nuclear units. A site to see. SITES.NPPD.COM A SITE WITH COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION ON NEBRASKA. 1-800-282-6773, ext. 5534 IMAGE PROVIDED BY NRG ENERGY #3503 at www.BusinessFacilities.com BUSINESS FACILITIES 23 http://sites.nppd.com http://sites.nppd.com http://www.BusinessFacilities.com
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