Microsoft is taking over a $50 million, 315-acre plot of land in southeastern Wisconsin originally intended for a massive Foxconn factory that famously failed to live up to its hype.
Microsoft plans to build a $1 billion data center on the site 30 miles from Milwaukee.
In 2017 Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics manufacturer and maker of Apple iPhones, announced plans with great fanfare to build a $10 billion facility that would employ 13,000 people. Despite receiving nearly $3 billion in tax breaks, the company grossly undelivered on the promised jobs and capital investment, adding fuel to the fire in hotly contested debates about the value of incentives. The incentives were later drastically reduced.
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