The data center proposed, then withdrawn, by Foxconn. | Image: Mount Pleasant Planning Commission
On September 12th, the village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, where Foxconn is supposed to be building its enormous factory, released plans for a new building: a nine-story glass orb that would serve as Foxconn’s data center.
By that afternoon, the company withdrew the plans, Wisconsin Public Radio reported, to “explore additional design options.”
Instead, Foxconn is moving forward with plans for a more conventional-looking structure: a boxy 260,000-square-foot facility that plans say will house manufacturing and office space.
Image: Mount Pleasant Planning Commission
The quick building swap isn’t the first change of course for Foxconn, which initially promised a 20…