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In my very opinionated view, the concept of new company towns is missing. All the current efforts are around bringing jobs to people. Jobs are a side effect, things shouldn't be done for the sake of jobs.

The plains of nebraska for example are an excellent place (again, opinionated) for an assembly plant like foxconn but american. Mainly because a crapton of freight via railways passes through there and plenty of undeveloped cheap land. Such factories have high shipping/receiving volume and new towns with new cheap housing for potential workers is feasible.

Yuma is another great location because of it's stable (sunniest in US) climate, proximity to mexico boarder and like with TSMC and Tuscon it is very disaster safe, right on I10 and close to CA (the US might starve if Yuma was destroyed! A lot of food processing there for these reasons).

Manufacturing at old towns and factories will have minimal competitive advantage.

Lastly, the US does not have a "success at any cost" mindset towards manufacturing as the fuel for economic success. It is very much an afterthought. A lot of this and many other issues are a result of political divisions.