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President Joseph Biden will travel to Wisconsin to announce the news, according to Biden officials.

The announcement comes at a time when tech giants are racing to lead the AI industry.

OpenAI and ChatGPT

Microsoft, OpenAI, and other tech giants will invest billions into AI over the coming years.

Microsoft hasinvested billions into OpenAIand other AI projects.

EvenCoca-Cola has invested over $1 billion into AIthrough a partnership with Microsoft.

AI already powers personal computing, enterprise workloads, and the cloud.

Cloud servers

The demand for artificial intelligence seems guaranteed to go up rapidly.

Microsoft wants to shift away from reliance on other companies, such as NVIDIA, to meet AI demand.

The $3.3 billion investment in the Racine County project is one of many steps in that direction.

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood.

Microsoft will also create a Datacenter academy in Wisconsin to train 1,000 people in STEM jobs.

That academy will employ up to 2,000 people as well.

That facility was scaled back significantly.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, February 2023

The release also highlights the fact that Foxconn is a “Taiwanese electronics manufacturer.”

Microsoft, in contrast, is a US company.

Those investments are also likely intertwine with politics.

Satya Nadella and Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day

Bill Gates holding up a copy of Windows XP operating system in New York�s Times Square.

Apple Store in Bangkok, Thailand

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly seen on a laptop computer in Hastings on the Hudson, New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 22. 2020.

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