After sitting empty for 18 years, a huge former Motorola factory in Harvard could become something that doesn’t exist in Illinois today: a big digital hub and warehouse fueled by the sun. A Canadian venture has agreed to buy the 325-acre campus in the McHenry County town, with plans to convert it into a solar-powered data center.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.