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The Illinois Department of Commerce said that of the $500 million proposal, $300 million would be earmarked for the quantum campus and $200 million would go to "matching federal grant opportunities," but the governor's office didn't clarify how the proposed campus would differ from existing Illinois quantum research facilities at Argonne and Fermilab. It doesn't even know where it wants to put the thing. "There are a number of sites currently under consideration — no decision on the location has been made," a spokesperson from the Department of Commerce said.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Remember how JB is pushing EV’s now Apple is abandoning it’s plan for an EV car.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/apple-pulls-plug-electric-car-200100937.html
This article hit a nerve with me. “But the public sector engineer remained unconvinced. “Our issues are political, not technological,” they said.” I traveled to the Cook Co suburbs this weekend, and going up I39 at one of the truck stop exits outside Ottawa, the ramp, intersection and bridge still have not been touched in +25 years – it looks and rides like a Ukraine battlefield. I slowed way down and dodged pothole after pothole to keep from damaging the undercarriage on my newer car. Pritzker and Democrats absolutely refuse to properly maintain the infrastructure they have raised taxes for.… Read more »
Why is it that Illinois has to throw all these incentives around to try and land companies here? I mean with Illinois being such a liberal utopia companies should be beating the doors down to come to Illinois…uh…shouldn’t they?
I’m sure the quantum labs will be gobbling up highly qualied CPS grads
Finally a proposal that makes sense. Illinois nuclear power, winters, and central location all work out for quantum data center support.
Does it? What world do you live in?