> Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Kansas and California.
Do these states (aside from California) have fabs, or rather any hope of getting new fabs? What's in it for them?
Do these states (aside from California) have fabs, or rather any hope of getting new fabs? What's in it for them?
Kentucky, Alabama, and Michigan are huge automobile assembly states [1] who are hurting from chip shortages. KY/AL are especially dependent on the auto assembly industry for non-ag employment.
California has Tesla, of course, but also likely to benefit from chip fabrication.
Wisconsin is kind of a historical auto state, so some solidarity makes sense. More importantly, though, I think WI+IL see potential for chip fab in their states because of their globally-unique fresh water source (Lake Michigan), and NC is probably on board because they see potential to benefit from domestic chip fabs in research triangle. Pennsylvania probably fits into this "one foot in because of auto suppliers and the other foot in because of tech" camp also.
The huge elephant in the room is that Ohio, also a huge auto assembly state, isn't on board. I can't really explain why Ohio's not on board, other than maybe their governor playing petty politics.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_pl...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...