From “Eighth Wonder” to AI Megasite
In July 2017, the Trump White House staged a celebration announcing that Foxconn would build a $10 billion LCD manufacturing complex in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, promising up to 13,000 jobs and hailing it as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”1
State and local governments lined up nearly $3 billion in state tax credits and hundreds of millions more in local subsidies and infrastructure to make it happen.2
The site looks very different today.