President Biden on Wednesday introduced the creation of a man-made intelligence knowledge middle in Wisconsin, highlighting one in every of his administration’s largest financial accomplishments in a vital battleground state — and pointing to a major failure by his predecessor and 2024 challenger.

On the Gateway Technical School in Racine, Mr. Biden mentioned the $3 billion mission, which will likely be constructed by Microsoft, was an instance of how he has delivered on guarantees that former President Donald J. Trump didn’t.

The Microsoft knowledge middle will likely be constructed on grounds the place Mr. Trump, as president, introduced in 2017 that Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics producer, would construct a $10 billion manufacturing facility for making LCD panels. Mr. Trump promised that it might be the “eighth marvel of the world,” and visited the positioning with elected officers and golden shovels. However the mission by no means materialized as anticipated.

On Wednesday, Mr. Biden took direct intention on the failed promise. “Look what occurred — they dug a gap with these golden shovels, after which they fell into it,” Mr. Biden advised the gang.

“Through the earlier administration, my predecessor made guarantees, which he broke greater than stored, left lots of people behind in communities like Racine,” Mr. Biden mentioned. “On my watch, we make guarantees and we maintain guarantees.”

In his fourth journey to Wisconsin this yr, Mr. Biden continued his aggressive marketing campaign to color a distinction with Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, who’s within the fourth week of his prison trial in reference to funds to a pornographic movie star.

Whereas in Wisconsin, Mr. Biden additionally attended a marketing campaign occasion, the place he spoke to Black voters concerning the 2024 election.

“I actually suppose democracy is at stake right here,” Mr. Biden advised the gang of about 100 volunteers and supporters. He additionally warned that one other Trump administration would threaten his accomplishments, telling the gang that “Trump means what he says.”

The Microsoft mission is a part of Mr. Biden’s “Investing in America” agenda, which has targeted on bringing billions of private-sector {dollars} into manufacturing and industries akin to clear power and synthetic intelligence. Microsoft expects that the brand new knowledge middle will create 2,300 union building jobs and a couple of,000 everlasting jobs.

Mr. Biden known as Racine a “nice comeback story,” after the once-booming manufacturing city misplaced the Foxconn mission, and 1000’s of jobs, beneath Mr. Trump. Mr. Biden mentioned Wisconsin had seen substantial job and manufacturing progress throughout his tenure. “We’re doing what has at all times labored on this nation,” Mr. Biden mentioned, “giving individuals a good shot, leaving no person behind, rising the economic system from the center out and the underside up, not the highest down.”

The Republican Nationwide Committee issued a press release throughout Mr. Biden’s go to calling it a part of his “Bankrupting America Tour.”

“Joe Biden is attempting to save lots of face in Racine County as Wisconsinites really feel the ache of Bidenomics,” Michael Whatley, chairman of the committee, mentioned within the assertion. “Manufacturing has stalled, household farms are shuttering, and prices are up for all the pieces from electrical energy and fuel to meals and housing.”

The Foxconn manufacturing facility was speculated to be one in every of Mr. Trump’s marquee home manufacturing victories: the primary main manufacturing facility run by the electronics provider in Wisconsin, with a promised 13,000 jobs.

As a substitute, the corporate deserted its bold plans and produced solely a fraction of the promised jobs, even after receiving tens of millions in subsidies and bulldozing houses and farms to construct the manufacturing facility.

In a press release issued Wednesday, Foxconn defended its file in Wisconsin, saying that regardless of “modifications in market demand and different challenges,” the corporate “continues to develop with its group in Wisconsin.”

Microsoft plans to work with Gateway Technical School to develop a “Datacenter Academy” that trains 1,000 staff throughout the state for knowledge middle and science and know-how roles by 2030, based on the White Home. The corporate additionally mentioned it might increase its “Women in STEM” program to 2 extra center faculties.

Brad Smith, vice chairman and president of Microsoft, who can also be a Racine native, mentioned the mission represented that “we’re a rustic the place individuals come collectively, the place individuals work collectively, the place they tackle laborious challenges and we get nice issues performed.”

Knowledge facilities can present 1000’s of jobs to construct, however they usually don’t require as many individuals to function. The announcement’s give attention to offering coaching, significantly for producers, displays a central anxiousness over whether or not A.I.’s promise to spice up productiveness will kill extra jobs than it could possibly allow.

Microsoft has constructed a good alliance with the White Home, even because it has just lately suffered damaging and embarrassing hacks by teams affiliated with China and Russia. The Biden administration has positioned Microsoft as a key accomplice to safe U.S. management within the race with China to develop A.I. Final month, it helped orchestrate Microsoft’s $1.5 billion funding in G42, a man-made intelligence big within the United Arab Emirates, to place stress on China’s affect within the Gulf.

(The New York Instances sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December, claiming copyright infringement of reports content material associated to their A.I. techniques.

Karen Weise contributed reporting from Seattle.