President Joe Biden is traveling to Wisconsin to announce the project, which will create up to 2,000 jobs.
President Joe Biden is traveling to Racine, Wisconsin, today to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft, which will build an AI data center on the same site as the failed Foxconn project, according to a White House press release. The Microsoft project, which the White House estimates will create an estimated 2,300 union construction jobs and up to 2,000 permanent jobs, is part of Biden’s Investing in America initiative.
According to Dzieza’s reporting, many of the people who ended up employed by Foxconn were hired so the company could get a tax subsidy payment from the state of Wisconsin. The state ended up rejecting Foxconn’s subsidy application after finding that the company had only employed 281 people eligible under the contract. In the end, the project left Racine worse off: to build the factory, the state seized land, including people’s homes, via eminent domain and diverted water from Lake Michigan.
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