Meghan McCarty Carino

This is kind of in the Syracuse area.

Micron, we've talked a lot about recently because it's one of three companies in the world that makes this high bandwidth memory that is essential for AI processing.

It's part of those GPUs we hear so much about.

And like a lot of the issues that we've heard about with data centers recently, this company is encountering some hurdles when it comes to building this massive manufacturing facility.

What's been going on there?

And this is sort of being seen as like a test case or a model for, you know, what communities might demand as we see so much of this AI infrastructure being built out throughout the country, right?

Right.

I mean, I'm sure this kind of facility would be, you know, kind of something that states would be fighting over.

Often we sort of see in clean energy projects and, you know, these big kind of facilities that they often do go to red states and not, you know, New York and blue states that have, you know, a bit more of these processes in place.

And I think it does raise kind of an interesting question

tension in especially this kind of effort to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States.

You know, there's a reason that a lot of those fabs moved overseas.

There is a kind of, you know, challenge in bringing this industry back and making it sustainable.

Of course, I can see why a community would have these concerns and, you know, want to ensure that there are social benefits, especially if taxpayer dollars are being involved.

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