President Joe Biden will visit the “Eighth Wonder of the World” in Racine, Wisconsin on Wednesday to tout a new $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a new AI data center, Axios reports.
We put “Eighth Wonder of the World” in quotations because the term is kind of loosely defined and subjective as there is no agreement as to what constitutes a “wonder of the world,” even among the archaeology, geology, and other experts who purport to maintain such rankings. It’s just that fat former President Trump called the site of the new Microsoft project the “Eighth Wonder of the World” six years ago when he and then-Governor Scott Walker ceremonially broke ground on the construction of a massive new Foxconn manufacturing facility that was supposed to add like 13,000 high-paying, specialized jobs to the area in exchange for $4 billion in tax incentives to the company.
The project was then steadily downsized again and again and again until Foxconn just built a flatscreen plant that employs about 1,450 locals. Microsoft bought up the remainder of the Eighth Wonder’s parcel last year, leading to Wednesday’s big visit by Biden to tout the American tech giant’s commitment to adding at least 2,000 new jobs to the area, aiming to train at least half of them in specialized data center management courses at a local technical college.