President Biden is scheduled to visit Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce the creation of an artificial intelligence data center, highlighting one of his administration's biggest economic achievements in the key battleground state and also meeting the 2024 challenges faced by his immediate predecessor. point out significant failures by those involved.
Mr. Biden is expected to announce at the Racine Technical College that Microsoft will invest $3.3 billion to build the center, which the giant tech company said will create jobs for construction union workers, according to the White House. It is estimated that 2,300 jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs will be created. The project is part of Biden's “Invest in America'' policy, which focuses on pumping billions of dollars of private sector funding into industries such as manufacturing and clean energy and artificial intelligence.
In his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year, Biden will continue his aggressive campaign to draw a contrast with former President Donald J. Trump, the likely Republican nominee. Trump is in the fourth week of a criminal trial related to the payments. Become a porn movie star. While in Wisconsin, Biden also plans to attend campaign events and speak to Black voters about the stakes of the election.
In a fact sheet released by the White House, the administration said Biden's visit to Racine will demonstrate “communities that are central to investing in places that have been historically overlooked or failed by previous administrations' policies.” Stated.
Microsoft's data center will be built on the site where Trump, as president, announced in 2017 that Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn would build a $10 billion factory to make LCD panels. The Foxconn factory was supposed to be one of Trump's big wins in domestic manufacturing. The first large-scale factory operated by a Wisconsin electronics supplier promises to create 13,000 jobs.
Instead, even after receiving millions of dollars in subsidies and bulldozing homes and farms to make way for the factory, the ill-fated project never materialized as promised. The company abandoned the plan, creating only a fraction of the jobs promised, thus undercutting Trump's pledge to revitalize U.S. manufacturing and adding about 1,000 manufacturing jobs during his four years in office. The loss was a huge blow to Racine. The new data center will add to the more than 4,000 jobs created in Racine since the president took office, according to information released by the White House ahead of Biden's visit.
Mr. Trump credited Foxconn with negotiating the project, promising it would be the “eighth wonder of the world.” When Mr. Trump and then-Foxconn Chairman Terry Gow announced the project at the White House in 2017, Mr. Trump expressed how he would help persuade Apple and other tech giants' electronics suppliers to invest in Racine. Bragged about how essential it is.
“I would meet with Terry and say, 'You've got to give us one of these huge places,'” Trump said. “If I hadn't won, he definitely wouldn't have spent $10 billion.”
In addition to the data center, Microsoft is committed to investing in workforce development in Racine and across Wisconsin, the White House said.
The company plans to work with Gateway Technical College to develop a “data center academy” to train 1,000 employees for data center and science and technology roles across the state by 2030, according to the White House. It is said that The company also announced the expansion of its “Girls in STEM” program to two additional middle schools.
“Wisconsin has a rich and storied heritage of innovation and ingenuity in manufacturing,” Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in a statement. “Leveraging our resources, scale and know-how, we will further strengthen these strengths with the world's most advanced AI and the skills training to take advantage of it.”