Retiring Guy's Digest: 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.

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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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2023

Microsoft plans to create 1.5% of the jobs that Foxconn promised Scott Walker. (12/30)

Scott Walker's "Foxconned in Wisconsin": The jobs engine that wasn't. (12/8)

The diversification effort that went bust. (11/13)

Microsoft plans to expand its data centers on Foxconn property. (11/12)

Foxconned in Wisconsin: Trump's 8th Wonder of the World. (11/9)

2021

Four years in, Foxconn still hopes to hit a bullseye. (10/1)

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)