100 new jobs coming to Kings Mountain by 2014

One hundred new jobs are coming to Kings Mountain by 2014.

AT&T announced its new data center on Wednesday.

“Our new Kings Mountain facility -- that just has a ring to it,” said Cynthia Marshall, the AT&T North Carolina president.

Kings Mountain roofer John McDaniel said he’s excited about the new data center, too.

“I think it will actually push me on into the future,” McDaniel said.

He thinks he will benefit when AT&T starts building its data processing center there. Construction will take 1,000 workers.

Lately, McDaniel said, all of his business has come from repair work.

“New construction in the area has been pretty much dead,” he said.

McDaniel hopes new jobs will change that.

AT&T said it is going to spend $200 million to build the data center and hire 100 people.

“But the impact will be much greater.  An estimated ongoing economic impact of more than $935 million over 10 years,” Marshall said.

AT&T said it wants to go to local colleges to help train more workers to support the data center.

AT&T plans to open the data center in 2014.  It has not determined how many of the 100 employees to man the center will be new hires from the area and how many will be transfers from elsewhere in the company.