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Google aims to snag Wiz for $23B, while First Solar to power up Ohio with $500M R&D Hub
[First Solar] First Solar, Tempe, Arizona, recently commissioned what it dubs ‘the largest thin-film R&D center in the Western Hemisphere.’ The company — the U.S.’s largest solar panel manufacturer — has sited its Jim Nolan Center for Solar Innovation …