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The Foxconn campus on Wisconn Valley Way in Mount Pleasant includes an 80-foot mirrored-glass globe now used as a data center. Originally intended for large-scale LCD manufacturing, the site’s facilities highlight Wisconsin’s industrial development initiatives from the late 2010s that were later scaled back.

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Foxconn's spherical glass data center with mirrored blue-green panels in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
Foxconn's spherical building in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, opened in 2020 as part of the company's Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park, a project announced in 2017 as a multibillion-dollar LCD manufacturing campus. Standing about 80 feet tall, the globe now functions as a data and network operations center rather than the factory space originally planned for the site. It sits along Wisconn Valley Way near Interstate 94, close to Foxconn's other buildings at the Mount Pleasant campus, including the company's electric vehicle assembly facility. The project marked one of the largest foreign direct investment announcements in Wisconsin history, though Foxconn later scaled back its original manufacturing plans for the location.
Foxconn Innovation Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, featuring modern architecture with glass dome data center and American
The low-rise building at the center of this entrance sits within Foxconn's Wisconn Valley campus in Mount Pleasant, operated by Foxconn Industrial Internet, or Fii. The company shifted its stated plans here from Gen 10.5 LCD panel manufacturing to a broader mix of research, electronics assembly, and light manufacturing after the original 2017 agreement with the state was renegotiated in 2021. The glass sphere nearby was built as a data center and multimedia showcase space rather than a manufacturing facility. Wisconn Valley Way, the campus's main access road, was constructed as part of the roughly $3 billion in state and local infrastructure commitments tied to the project.
Foxconn High Tech Carrier facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, featuring modern industrial architecture with a red steel canopy.
The "High Tech Carrier" building is part of the Foxconn Industrial Internet complex in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, developed following the company's 2017 agreement with the state to build an LCD manufacturing campus. Foxconn later scaled back those plans, shifting its stated focus toward smaller electronics and server assembly rather than large-scale display production. The surrounding Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park was designed to house multiple Foxconn-affiliated buildings along I-94 near Racine County.
Foxconn directional sign at Gate 2 entrance, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin facility.
Foxconn Technology Group broke ground on this Mount Pleasant site in 2018 after signing a 2017 agreement with the state of Wisconsin that pledged a $10 billion investment and promised up to 13,000 jobs. The project sits within the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park, a roughly 3,000-acre development the state assembled through eminent domain and tax incentives. Foxconn originally proposed a Generation 10.5 LCD fabrication plant, a scale of manufacturing it had previously built only in China, but repeatedly revised the plans downward over subsequent years. The campus now includes smaller assembly and data operations rather than the large-panel display plant first announced, and employment has remained well below initial projections.
Spherical glass dome structure at Foxconn facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
The glass sphere sits at the center of Foxconn Industrial Internet's campus along Braun Road in Mount Pleasant, part of the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park. Foxconn built the orb-shaped structure around 2019 as the architectural centerpiece and entrance to its planned Gen 10.5 LCD fabrication campus, a project originally announced in 2017 with state and local incentives exceeding $3 billion. That manufacturing plan was later abandoned, and Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) repurposed the surrounding buildings for data center and high-performance computing operations instead. The company has used the globe building for administrative offices and as a showcase space rather than for the large-scale electronics manufacturing it was first designed to support.
The Foxconn mirrored-glass globe facility on Wisconn Valley Way in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
The mirrored-glass sphere sits along Wisconn Valley Way, a road built to serve the Foxconn Technology Group development in Mount Pleasant. Foxconn and the state of Wisconsin struck a deal in 2017 for a manufacturing campus originally billed as a Gen 10.5 LCD panel plant, a project that carried more than $3 billion in state and local incentives. The plan was scaled back repeatedly in the years that followed, and the site has since housed smaller-scale assembly and data operations rather than the large LCD fabrication facility first announced.

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