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.
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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]
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