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On October 4, 2022, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, after more than three years of behind the scenes work and writing and shepherding the CHIPS + Science Act through Congress, in a statement today heralded the transformative announcement by U.S.-based Micron Technology, Inc. that it has committed to invest $100 billion over the next 20 years in Central New York to build new memory chip Megafab.
\"After years of work, it's official —Micron is coming to Central New York! With the passage of the CHIPS and Science bill I wrote and championed, the investments we are making are already paying off,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. “Micron's $100 billion investment in Upstate New York will fundamentally transform the region and power America’s growth into the 21st century and beyond. The Megafab will cement Upstate New York’s place as a global hub for manufacturing and create tens of thousands of good-paying high-tech and construction jobs.”
Micron, a U.S.-based memory and storage manufacturer and the fourth-largest producer of semiconductors in the world, will invest up to $100 billion over the next 20-plus years to construct the project, with the first phase investment of $20 billion planned by the end of this decade, creating nearly 50,000 jobs statewide — 9,000 new high-paying Micron jobs with an average annual salary of over $100,000 and over 40,000 community jobs — and create thousands and thousands of prevailing wage construction jobs. When complete, the complex will include the nation's largest clean room space at approximately 2.4 million square feet, the size of nearly 40 football fields.