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President Joe Biden to announce AI data center at failed Foxconn site in Wisconsin

Microsoft is taking over the buildings Foxconn left vacant.

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. In 2017, former President Donald Trump announced that the Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn — which, among other things, manufactures iPhones — was building a massive LCD factory in Mount Pleasant, a small town with high unemployment. 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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