#Vietnamese officials have called on #Apple supplier #Foxconn to reduce power use by 30% at its assembly plants in the north of the country where there were #electricity#outages last year, two people familiar with the matter said.
The request for #EnergySaving measures, which two other industry sources said was sent to multiple manufacturers, is precautionary & aimed at averting a repeat of last summer when #PowerShortage led to over a billion dollars in lost output.
#POTUS Biden will champion a new Microsoft #Artificial Intelligence investment in #Wisconsin on Wedn — showcasing the failed #economic commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a #job-rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.
The #Foxconn facility was to have dozens of bldgs on a giant plot of land 3X the size of NY’s Central Park. But the project accomplished little more than the #destruction of 100 local #homes & #farms before the co drastically scaled back plans.
In Sept 2020, #Wisconsin state ofcls denied the Taiwanese co special #tax credits, saying it had abandoned its original commitment, employed <520 people & spent just $300M. Local #taxpayers were left w/a tab of >$500M for site prep.
Der Elektronikfertiger will neue Geschäftszweige erobern. Die erdnah kreisenden Satelliten könnten künftig beim Aufbau von Internetverbindungen helfen.
Dienstag: Noch keine Einigung bei KI-Verordnung, Tesla-Werk in Mexiko ungewiss
EU sucht gemeinsame Linie + Tesla-Werk in Mexiko verzögert sich + Probenbehälter nicht zu öffnen + Lebenszeit für Sonden verlängert + Ermittlungen gegen Foxconn
Foxconn: Ermittlungen in China schicken Aktien ins Minus
China hat Ermittlungen gegen Foxconn eingeleitet. Die Hintergründe sind unklar, aber mehrfach wird auf die politischen Ambitionen des Firmengründers verwiesen.
"If the Chinese Communist party regime were to say 'If you don't listen to me, I'll confiscate your assets from Foxconn,' I would say 'Yes, please, do it!'
@thejapantimes All we need is James Soong and his group of mainlanders to run for his sixth presidential campaign...maybe Lien Chan will get out of the hospital and the both of them can join the ticket just like in '04