From Prometheus to Hadrian: Silicon Valley's Push to Reindustrialize America
DETROIT—In mid-June, a few days after the SpaceX initial public offering made him billions, tech investor Antonio Gracias returned to his hometown of Detroit to address a room filled with Rust Belt manufacturers. The proprietors were mostly tech transplants who had come to the Midwest to buy up industrial plants and install AI on the factory floor.“It’s not true that you can’t make things in America,” Gracias said to encouraging cheers. Any claim to the contrary, he added, “is bullshit.” And...