Samuel García Nuevo León Tesla NVIDIA Tigres stadium projects delayed, Digi Mart USA News (Nuevo León, Mexico): Nuevo León Governor Samuel García addressed why three of the state’s most prominent projects, a Tesla plant, a new stadium for the Tigres soccer club and a reported arrival of NVIDIA, have not materialized yet. He said the development of these investments did not depend directly on the state government.
Regarding Tesla, the governor rejected the idea that the project had been permanently canceled. “The first one, Tesla…
well, it was not canceled, it is on hold. We are still talking with them,” he said.
On the new Tigres stadium at UANL, García said the funding came from private initiative and from the company Cemex, though he acknowledged his mistake was generating high expectations among fans. “It is private investment money.
It is a Cemex team that asked the governor for a piece of land from the Afaim to expand and build a bigger stadium.
“Perhaps my mistake was the grandiloquence of wanting to please all the Tigres fans and telling them a new stadium is coming,” he said. The governor added that the state administration completed its administrative part, but the legal process stalled in the Legislative branch.
“On my side everything was ready, we ceded the land, it got stuck in Congress. That is the matter of what is called a comodato.”
Regarding the NVIDIA announcement, he admitted it was an error caused by an internal communication failure and a hasty handling of information on his social media. “That was a communication error from my team.
I was invited in Mexico City to a chips stand, and in the morning they told me they were going to announce a 1 trillion dollar investment by NVIDIA. And as always, in my rush, accelerated, I posted a story from the morning saying: ‘Guess what?
NVIDIA is coming to Nuevo León and will invest 1 trillion dollars.’
“In the end it was not NVIDIA, it was a fund that was going to buy chips from Nvidia,” the governor said.
