Following Foxconn’s failure to deliver on lofty promises to construct a major factory that would employ thousands of workers, Microsoft has agreed to purchase a $50 million block of land in southeast Wisconsin that was intended for the world’s largest electronics maker.
The 315-acre site in Mount Pleasant, is where Microsoft plans to construct a $1 billion data center.
The number of employees the center may have is unknown; when contacted by email on Wednesday, Microsoft executives did not immediately respond with a statement.
There is already a Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing site in Mount Pleasant, approximately 770 jobs were actually created at the site last year, despite the Taiwanese company’s commitment to create 13,000 jobs there.
