Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later

Re:Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one yea... by at-fates-hands on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:58PM (#22852434)

Same thing happened in Sochi where everything has been abandoned and the cost to the taxpayers has been exorbitant:

A year after the $51 billion Winter Olympics, many of the key facilities built for Vladimir Putin's extravaganza have been barely been used.

While the pistes up the mountains are now often packed with skiers - the collapsing rouble means Russians have switched from the likes of Courchevel to the Caucasus - many of the key sites of the games appear to have little prospect of being filled again.

He complained that the Bolshoy Ice Dome - costing the Russian taxpayer £197 million - requires a budget of £9,900 a day to maintain, 'mainly for taking care of the ice'.

A company which owns some of the key facilities - hardly used since the games - and is close to the regional authorities, is on the very edge of bankruptcy, he reported, citing Russia's leading business newspaper Kommersant.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941216/Extraordina...

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Re:Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one yea... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:02AM (#22853525)

Absolute bullshit.

Sochi went from being a dump to being a somewhat popular vacation destination for middle class people.

There's room for argument on whether federal funds should have been used to make Sochi richer and nicer, but the article as written is basically fake news.

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Re:Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one yea... by morsch on Monday April 13, 2020 @06:35AM (#22854590)

While I don't doubt that a Daily Mail article is full of lies, what you're saying (Sochi is a more popular and beautiful holiday destination) and what the gp is saying (many of the facilities are derelict) is hardly mutually exclusive.

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