In case you missed it, Wisconsin has been on a bit of an economic development hot streak of late.
It
started in early May when Microsoft announced it will build a $3.3
billion data center in Racine County, largely to meet artificial
intelligence needs. The streak grew in late May with creation of a $100
million public-private venture capital fund to help finance startups in
health care, agriculture and other sectors — with emphasis on rural
Wisconsin and people who don’t normally encounter early stage investors.
It
continued this week when Wisconsin was named a “tech hub,” a process
that began with the 2022 passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and which
spurred a multi-state competition for federal dollars. The Economic
Development Administration designated 12 such hubs, spread among sectors
ranging from quantum computing to polymers to food technologies, with
Wisconsin’s focus being personalized medicine...