1 week Ago By T.J. Muscaro
President Joe Biden appeared in Racine, Wisconsin, to share the news that Microsoft is investing $3.3 billion to build a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Racine on the same land that was cleared for a Foxconn manufacturing facility six years ago. The new facility, according to the White House, will create 2,300 union construction jobs, as well as 2,000 well-paying permanent jobs that will feature comprehensive benefits such as paid family leave and “growth pathways.
” During a speech in Wisconsin, President Biden told his supporters that since he took office, his administration has added 178,000 jobs in the state and nearly 4,000 jobs in Racine. The White House touted this deal as part of the Biden administration’s “Investing in America” agenda, which the president said is “fueling a historic boom in rebuilding our roads and bridges, developing and deploying clean energy, revitalizing American manufacturing, and so much more.” Microsoft’s deal also represents the latest example of “private-sector optimism,” according to the president “We’ve created $866 billion in private-sector investment nationwide—almost a trillion dollars—historic amounts in such a short time, and that’s literally creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, building new semiconductor factories, electric vehicles, and battery factories, and so much more here—all here in America,” he said.
President Biden also compared his administration’s record to that of form.
