But can you go through, especially as a Wisconsin kid yourself, why is this state, like right now, the epicenter for so much data center development? Well, it's an interesting coincidence, and maybe a happy one, if you will, because The village of Mount Pleasant and the state did so much to attract the Foxconn investment... the foundation was laid, the access to electricity, the zoning and the like. So that's what brought Microsoft to the state. Once we were here, the rest of the industry woke up and said, wow, what do those folks know that we don't? (06:51–07:09)
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Asserts that previous efforts to attract Foxconn investment laid the groundwork for data center development in Wisconsin.
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