Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot

After Foxconn's failed effort to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca, the site is getting a new lease on life after Microsoft revealed a $3.3 billion investment to build a datacenter campus there.

"Six years ago, the prior administration touted a $10 billion investment by Foxconn that would purportedly create 13,000 manufacturing jobs in Racine. But after 100 homes and farms were bulldozed to make way for the manufacturing plant and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were invested to prepare the site, no such investment materialized," the Biden administration

This includes creating an"AI Co-Innovation Lab" in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, helping manufacturers integrate machine learning to automate workflows, and up-skilling 100,000 residents across the state to use generative AI technologies like, er, Microsoft Copilot., Microsoft President Brad Smith promoted AI's potential to advance next-gen manufacturing plants, upskill workers, and create jobs in Wisconsin and across the country.

The extent of the datacenter project wasn't disclosed in the announcement, however local media have previously reported that the campus would include at least four datacenters. Redmond did attempt to assuage fears regarding power consumption, a topic that's garnered considerablein the wake of the generative AI boom. The cloud biz says it's working with National Grid to build a 250-megawatt solar array in Wisconsin, which is expected to come online in 2027.

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