Earlier this month, The Verge published an investigation checking in on the many “innovation centers” Foxconn had announced it would open in Wisconsin. Foxconn had promoted the buildings as part of its effort to turn the state into a technology hub employing 13,000 people, with the centerpiece being a heavily subsidized LCD factory on Lake Michigan. But as of early April, the buildings stood empty. Some hadn’t even been bought, and no one in Wisconsin seemed to know what was going on with them.
Just two days after The Verge’s report, Foxconn announced it was buying yet another building. Alan Yeung, Foxconn’s director of US strategic initiatives, said the story contained “a lot of inaccuracies,” and that the buildings are not empty but,…
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