Elon Musk and the $1 Billion ‘Bad Deal’ in Buffalo | WSJ Tech News Briefing

New York spent nearly $1 billion on a new solar-panel factory in Buffalo, hoping Elon Musk and Tesla would use it to transform the local economy. But things haven’t worked out as planned, with a local lawmaker calling it a “bad deal.”

WSJ reporter Ted Mann joins host Zoe Thomas to explain what went wrong.

0:00 New York investment in solar-panel factory
1:15 Tesla purchases SolarCity
2:43 The situation in Buffalo now
3:56 State officials’ comments
4:31 What is Tesla getting?

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