Is DEI killing the Intel semiconductor plant in New Albany?
Will DEI kill 10,000 Ohio jobs in Intel’s proposed $20 billion semiconductor plant in New Albany?
After Intel announced Ohio delays last month, the spotlight is on the Biden administration and the CHIPS act as chip-makers eye production in Japan, Ireland, and Germany — without the gaping maw of America’s DEI bureaucracy.
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Intel delays New Albany, Ohio plant, TSMC holding production in Arizona, Samsung delaying in Texas.
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$39 billion in CHIPS act subsidies unable to entice chipmakers to act on plans to produce semiconductors in the US.
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The legislation contains 19 sections mandating crippling diversity, equity, & inclusion provisions, jeopardizing US security and critical productive capacity.
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Intel prioritizing Ireland production, TSMC plans Japan production facility.
Read the full story on The Hill.
“The CHIPS Act’s current identity as a jobs program for favored minorities means companies are forced to recruit heavily from every population except white and Asian men already trained in the field,” Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson wrote at The Hill.
The legislation ties chipmakers to Department of Commerce bureaucrats to “increase the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce.”
The Dayton Daily News reported last month that Intel’s $20 billion plant faced construction and production setbacks, with more than 1.6 million man-hours already sunk in the project. More than 3,000 high-paying jobs at the plant, and 7,000 construction jobs to bring the project online, are now in jeopardy.
The state of Ohio offered Intel $2 billion in incentives and a 30-year tax break to secure the project, per the Dayton Daily News, not to mention the $39 billion CHIPS Act plan to onshore critical semiconductor manufacturing.
What was the real purpose of the CHIPS Act?
When legislation promising billions in incentives to maintain the basic productive capacities a global superpower requires fails at its own objective, ostensibly because of DEI, what was the purpose of that legislation?
When Biden administration officials and unelected Department of Commerce bureaucrats spoil critical US manufacturing capabilities for the sake of DEI payouts, was the DEI payout the real objective? Or, is legislation critical to US infrastructure crippled by lawmakers' need to appease favored voting blocs?
