Intel Built Ohio's Silicon Heartland — Then Walked Away

Intel Built Ohio's Silicon Heartland — Then Walked Away In January 2022, Intel made the largest private-sector investment promise in Ohio history. Twenty-eight billion dollars. Three thousand permanent jobs paying one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year. Seven thousand construction jobs. A campus so vast, Intel's own CEO called it a potential mini-city — and said it could one day become the largest semiconductor manufacturing site on earth. Ohio believed it. The state gave Intel nearly two billion dollars in incentives. The federal government added another seven-point-eight billion through the CHIPS Act. Licking County annexed over a thousand acres of farmland. Seventy-five families lost their homes. School districts drew up expansion plans. Developers bought land. Every planning decision in the county for two years had one word attached: Intel. Then the delays started. 2025 became 2027. 2027 became 2030. The CEO retired. Twenty-four thousand jobs were cut globally in 2026. Today, there are 162 Intel employees on site. This is the story of what happens when a community bends itself entirely around a promise — and the promise bends first. #Intel #Ohio #SiliconHeartland #ChipsAct #Manufacturing #AmericanJobs #IntelLayoffs #NewAlbany #CityFall #IndustrialDecline #CompanyTown #semiconductorstock 1. Intel Ohio One — further delays to early 2030s https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en... 2. Ohio Intel plant construction delayed by at least three years https://www.nbc4i.com/intel-in-ohio/o... 3. Intel delays completion of first Ohio plant to 2030 https://www.enr.com/articles/60389-in... 4. Promises made, but promises not kept — Licking County frustration https://www.athensmessenger.com/busin... 5. Statewide impact of Ohio Intel project — Governor's progress report https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news-...