In a visit to Syracuse last month, President Joe Biden announced that Micron Technology would get up to $6.1 billion in grants to build chipmaking factories in Central New York and Idaho. Biden did not mention a federal tax credit that would give Micron a much bigger taxpayer subsidy. (N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com)N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. -- When President Joe Biden came to Syracuse last month, he announced that Micron Technology would get a $6.1 billion grant to build semiconductor plants in Central New York and Idaho.
But the total taxpayer subsidy for Micron for building two plants in Clay and one in Boise could be more than three times that high.
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