Micron’s $100 billion New York semiconductor manufacturing project is facing local pushback

On a snowy Friday in January, dignitaries from both political parties braved the chill of a central New York winter for the groundbreaking ceremony of Micron Technology’s planned $100 billion manufacturing complex in Clay, a town not far from Syracuse. Over the next 20 years, Micron is promising the region thousands of jobs and the revitalization of a community hard hit by the decline of manufacturing.

Since President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act in 2022, billions of public...