Monday, April 15, 2024

FOXCONNED: Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave puts on a happy face



Milwaukee, 4/15/2024
Perhaps lemonade should be the official beverage of Mount Pleasant. 
It might have been Champagne in July 2017, when Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group announced that the Racine County village would be the site of a state-of-the-art flat-screen factory that then-President Donald Trump hyped as “the eighth wonder of the world.” The projected $10 billion investment would have been the largest ever made by a foreign company in a new U.S. location, bringing with it 13,000 jobs 
[snip] 
While it hasn’t promised a specific number of jobs, Microsoft has said its data centers typically employ 300 to 400 people. The company will partner with Gateway Technical College on a Data Center Academy to train workers.  [emphasis added]

Related posts:
2023
2021
GET ME REWRITE: Yes, Foxconn's $100 milion pledge to UW-Madison was nothing more than a cynical election ploy by Scott Walker.  (8/11)
The mysteries of Foxconn (season 2).  (5/12)
The collapse of Donald Trump's '8th Wonder of the World'.  (4/20)

2020
GET ME REWRITE: Two gullible guys from Racine County still believe anything Foxconn tells them.  (10/23)

Keeping tabs on Foxconn Place in

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