GeekWire May 8, 2024
Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s job-creation efforts in the key election battleground state.
The investment, according to a Microsoft announcement on Wednesday, will go toward expanding the tech giant’s cloud computing and AI infrastructure capacity, with the development of a state-of-the-art data center campus in Racine, Wisc.
Microsoft also plans to create the country’s first manufacturing-focused AI co-innovation lab, and an AI skilling initiative to equip more than 100,000 Wisconsin residents with essential AI skills.
The data center project is expected to create 2,300 union construction jobs in the area by 2025, and 2,000 permanent jobs over time — numbers that Biden touted in his...
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