President Biden, speaking in Syracuse, New York, announced that the federal government will designate Syracuse as one of its new job HUBS, where workforce training programs will help train people for new jobs. These would include tens of thousands of jobs expected to be created in Upstate New York as a result of the $125 billion commitment made by Micron to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Clay, New York, which is close to Syracuse, as well as Boise, Idaho .
In the New York project, there will be four manufacturing facilities, each having 600,000 square feet of cleanrooms, totaling 2.4 million square feet of cleanroom space across the four facilities. This is the largest amount of cleanroom space ever announced in the US and the size of nearly 40 football fields. A cleanroom is an environment devoid of dust and other contaminants where computer chips can be manufactured.
Biden met with Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Chuck Schumer in Syracuse, and talked with executives from Micron about the project. The federal government has agreed to invest $6.1 billion in the project to build the Micron plants.
Biden was en route to New York’s Kennedy International Airport late in the afternoon. Once there, he was scheduled to take the Marine One helicopter to Westchester County Airport and then motorcade to a fundraising event in Irvington.
