Michael Barbaro

And just to be clear, when we say that this company is writing these rules.

They're helping write rules that will then be drafted, adopted by local government.

Okay, so that is the first of what I imagine are many headaches.

So how does the company deal with that?

be American jobs.

So on top of all the tensions about rules, there are these cultural tensions, right?

being revealed between an international company trying to do this hard thing and a group of local American workers who are chafing at all that represents.

Mm-hmm.

And of course, we haven't even gotten to the idea that there are neighbors to this vast complex who no doubt, because this is the United States, have some questions and concerns.

So an ancillary building nearby.

In the course of reporting on all of these disputes and tensions, I'm curious where you found your sympathies lying.

Is it with a company that says, look, we're just trying to fulfill America's

pledge to have insurance against the worst-case scenarios.

We're just trying to build a factory in the U.S.

that makes sure you have access to chips, we have access to our clients.

Did you find yourself instead more drawn to these American folks who said, wait a minute, these should be American jobs, or we did not sign up for this building in our community?

So I think, Peter, this brings us to the most important and most existential question of all to emerge from this reporting you did, which is, did all of the rigmarole involved in getting this project complete, did it make this a template for the reestablishment of manufacturing in the United States at a massive scale, or does it loom

as the cautionary tale for why it's just too hard to do this in the U.S.

that would send similar companies, and perhaps those not getting a multibillion-dollar check from the U.S.

government, running in the other direction?