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    <title>Week of May 4-10, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[This week's Industry Intel covers 276 stories across site selection, economic development, and industrial real estate. The deep dive focuses on Foreign Direct Investment — including major inbound manufacturing announcements, how tariff uncertainty is reshaping FDI flows, and what site selectors need to know about siting projects with foreign sponsors.]]></description>
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    <itunes:title>Week of May 4-10, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This week's Industry Intel covers 276 stories across site selection, economic development, and industrial real estate. The deep dive focuses on Foreign Direct Investment — including major inbound manufacturing announcements, how tariff uncertainty is reshaping FDI flows, and what site selectors need to know about siting projects with foreign sponsors.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of May 11-15, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Toyota and USG drop a combined $3.2B on new Texas plants, manufacturing workforce shortages tighten across the apprenticeship pipeline, and the AI grid stress reshapes utility politics.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 01:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of May 11-15, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Toyota and USG drop a combined $3.2B on new Texas plants, manufacturing workforce shortages tighten across the apprenticeship pipeline, and the AI grid stress reshapes utility politics.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of May 16-23, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[USG stakes $1.1 billion on a Texas gypsum plant, a wave of foreign manufacturers breaks ground on US soil, and Washington routes $2 billion in fresh CHIPS Act funding to nine chipmakers.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 22:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of May 16-23, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[USG stakes $1.1 billion on a Texas gypsum plant, a wave of foreign manufacturers breaks ground on US soil, and Washington routes $2 billion in fresh CHIPS Act funding to nine chipmakers.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of May 24-31, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[This week: the talent barrier behind the industrial AI boom, a wave of billion-dollar plant and lab investments, and a state suing an automaker over a factory that never got built.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 22:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This week: the talent barrier behind the industrial AI boom, a wave of billion-dollar plant and lab investments, and a state suing an automaker over a factory that never got built.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of May 31 - Jun 7, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[USA Rare Earth's .2B South Carolina magnet plant, a wave of billion-dollar rail and transit tunnels, and the AI data-center boom straining the PJM power grid.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of May 31 - Jun 7, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[USA Rare Earth's .2B South Carolina magnet plant, a wave of billion-dollar rail and transit tunnels, and the AI data-center boom straining the PJM power grid.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jun 07-14, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ingredion's .6 billion deal for Tate and Lyle, a wave of foreign manufacturers breaking ground across the South, and the workforce academies racing to staff the industrial build-out.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jun 07-14, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ingredion's .6 billion deal for Tate and Lyle, a wave of foreign manufacturers breaking ground across the South, and the workforce academies racing to staff the industrial build-out.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jun 13-20, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Amazon's  billion Missouri data center campus, a wave of foreign direct investment landing in the U.S., and automakers pivoting into defense manufacturing.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jun 13-20, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Amazon's  billion Missouri data center campus, a wave of foreign direct investment landing in the U.S., and automakers pivoting into defense manufacturing.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jun 20-27, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A record year for industrial M&A and a 35 billion dollar defense order, the skilled-trades workforce squeeze, and a robotics and semiconductor building wave.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jun 20-27, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A record year for industrial M&A and a 35 billion dollar defense order, the skilled-trades workforce squeeze, and a robotics and semiconductor building wave.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jun 28 - Jul 05, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[BMW completes its .7B Spartanburg expansion and Cal-Maine settles an egg price-fixing case, plus site-selection scorecards and 2026 metro rankings, billion-dollar deals from Rocket Lab-Iridium to CMA CGM-FedEx, and USMCA back in limbo.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jun 28 - Jul 05, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[BMW completes its .7B Spartanburg expansion and Cal-Maine settles an egg price-fixing case, plus site-selection scorecards and 2026 metro rankings, billion-dollar deals from Rocket Lab-Iridium to CMA CGM-FedEx, and USMCA back in limbo.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jul 05-12, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Toyota's .6B Tacoma expansion in San Antonio, a tightening freight and cold-chain market, and a wave of foreign investment landing across the Southeast.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jul 05-12, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Toyota's .6B Tacoma expansion in San Antonio, a tightening freight and cold-chain market, and a wave of foreign investment landing across the Southeast.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jul 12-19, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Meta commits over $50B to a North Louisiana data center campus, employers hold onto workers in a low-hire low-fire market as Ford reaches a tentative deal with Unifor and Hyundai workers strike, and New York becomes the first state to pause data center development.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jul 12-19, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Meta commits over $50B to a North Louisiana data center campus, employers hold onto workers in a low-hire low-fire market as Ford reaches a tentative deal with Unifor and Hyundai workers strike, and New York becomes the first state to pause data center development.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jul 19-26, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Saronic's .2B autonomous shipyard lands in Brownsville, a bridge-and-water infrastructure surge from the Gordie Howe opening to the Key Bridge rebuild, and 50% tariffs on Canadian imports ripple into concrete and cement.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jul 19-26, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Saronic's .2B autonomous shipyard lands in Brownsville, a bridge-and-water infrastructure surge from the Gordie Howe opening to the Key Bridge rebuild, and 50% tariffs on Canadian imports ripple into concrete and cement.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Jul 26 - Aug 02, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The skilled trades pipeline emerges as the real constraint on industrial growth, Samsung and Broadcom sign a $200 billion AI memory deal, and utilities start squaring off against their own data center customers.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Jul 26 - Aug 02, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The skilled trades pipeline emerges as the real constraint on industrial growth, Samsung and Broadcom sign a $200 billion AI memory deal, and utilities start squaring off against their own data center customers.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Aug 2-9, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[TSMC commits $100 billion to Arizona, Texas freezes data center interconnections against 474 gigawatts of requests, and the permitting bottleneck that lives at City Hall.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Aug 2-9, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[TSMC commits $100 billion to Arizona, Texas freezes data center interconnections against 474 gigawatts of requests, and the permitting bottleneck that lives at City Hall.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Aug 16-23, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Tesla's $10 billion solar cell plant in Texas, a wave of foreign direct investment redrawing the North American industrial map, and how obsolete Cold War infrastructure is being reborn as AI data centers.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Aug 16-23, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Tesla's $10 billion solar cell plant in Texas, a wave of foreign direct investment redrawing the North American industrial map, and how obsolete Cold War infrastructure is being reborn as AI data centers.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode>
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    <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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    <title>Week of Aug 23-30, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The escalating US-Canada tariff war, a wave of megaprojects from SpaceX's Louisiana spaceport to Bristol Myers Squibb's Texas campus, and North America's largest new transportation-infrastructure commitments.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Aug 23-30, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The escalating US-Canada tariff war, a wave of megaprojects from SpaceX's Louisiana spaceport to Bristol Myers Squibb's Texas campus, and North America's largest new transportation-infrastructure commitments.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode>
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    <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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    <title>Week of Aug 30 - Sep 6, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[GE Appliances' $1 billion move of production from Mexico to Louisville leads a broad reshoring wave, foreign manufacturers from SK hynix to Sam Dong pick smaller U.S. and Canadian cities, and data centers turn to small modular nuclear and geothermal to secure power.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Aug 30 - Sep 6, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[GE Appliances' $1 billion move of production from Mexico to Louisville leads a broad reshoring wave, foreign manufacturers from SK hynix to Sam Dong pick smaller U.S. and Canadian cities, and data centers turn to small modular nuclear and geothermal to secure power.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Sep 06-13, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[GE Aerospace's $12 billion move to buy its own castings supplier, a split pair of environmental-liability rulings reshaping where heavy industry can site, and the labor paradox of billion-dollar plants rising as legacy workers get laid off.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Week of Sep 06-13, 2026</itunes:title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[GE Aerospace's $12 billion move to buy its own castings supplier, a split pair of environmental-liability rulings reshaping where heavy industry can site, and the labor paradox of billion-dollar plants rising as legacy workers get laid off.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Week of Sep 13-20, 2026</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola's  billion bet on localizing U.S. production, a wave of multi-billion-dollar civil megaprojects from New York's Second Avenue subway to new ballparks and West Coast ports, and the reshoring of critical hardware through Honda's rare-earth-free magnets and a new Mississippi transformer plant.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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