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Dive Brief:
- Tech company Micron pushed back construction $100 billion Clay, New York, semiconductor megafactory plant for two to three years, according to the project’s final environmental impact report.
- The updated timeline now sees the opening of the first facility coming in 2030, instead of 2028, and adjusts milestones for subsequent phased builds to 2041, the report said.
- “Based on experience with construction timelines in the semiconductor industry for new fabs in the United States, Micron has updated our expected operating milestones,” the company said in a statement. News Channel 9 WSYR Syracuse. “We are well positioned to continue with confidence.”
Diving knowledge:
The news is a major development for one of the largest active semiconductor construction efforts in the US
The tech company awarded Rhode Island builder Gilbane a preconstruction contract in August to prepare the ground for the $100 billion semiconductor manufacturing complex. The work marked the first phase of development at the White Pine Commerce Park site in Clay.
Neither Micron nor Gilbane responded to questions about the delay. Site preparation work is still scheduled to begin this year, according to the document.
But Micron now expects the first clay factory to be operational in the third quarter of 2030, with construction of all four facilities by 2041, according to the final environmental impact report.
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon blamed the delay longer construction cycles and labor shortagesaccording to tech news outlet Tom’s Hardware.
Construction on the first factory, previously scheduled to begin before the end of the year, will now begin in the second quarter of 2026, according to a table in the document detailing the revised schedule.
Construction of Fab 2 will now begin in the fourth quarter of 2030 and end in the fourth quarter of 2033. Micron initially expected construction of Fab 2 to begin in 2028 and finish in 2030, according to the report.
Those delays will also affect the start of Fab 3 and Fab 4. Construction on the Fab 3 project will begin in the third quarter of 2035, about two years later than planned, while Fab 4 construction activity will be delayed by one calendar quarter, the company said.
Despite the setback in New York, Micron is ramping up construction at its Boise, Idaho, plant.
The technology company redirected $1.2 billion in federal support from New York to its ID2 factory in Boise, Idaho, according to Tom’s Hardware.
The Department of Commerce announced in December 2024 final direct funding awards of up to $6.165 billion under the CHIPS Incentive Program for support Micron’s megaprojectsaccording to the final environmental impact report.
