Foxconn Buys Eau Claire Office Space, Partners with Advocate Aurora
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Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant, is making more moves in Wisconsin at it prepares to build a massive electronics factory in the southeast corner of the state.That space will house projects related to what the company calls an “8K+5G ecosystem” that it expects to form around an enormous electronic display factory Foxconn is building in southeastern Wisconsin.The plant, which is being built in the village of Mount Pleasant, WI, and will produce large television and computer screens, could employ up to 13,000 people, company leaders have said.In June, Foxconn announced it planned to expand its footprint in Wisconsin by purchasing large office buildings in the cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay and renovating them to become part of the company’s “innovation center network.” The network will now also include the workspaces in Eau Claire.The tie-up is aimed in part at lowering the healthcare costs of Foxconn’s U.S. employees by having clinicians and other staff at Advocate Aurora Health use Foxconn’s predictive modeling platform and artificial intelligence technology.
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