It’s a tale as old as time: Hotshot startup lures careless politician into flushing a prospective facility with tons of cash to revitalize a once-proud manufacturing town. Today’s startup, Tesla; the politician, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo; and the town, Buffalo. Gigafactory New York, as it’s called, was once tapped to produce enough solar-panel shingles to roof 1,000 houses per week and create 3,000 jobs, with 900 of them being manufacturing…
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