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Micron tells House committee U.S. fabs will need large, reliable power — company requests tax credits, permitting fixes
Summary
Micron told the House Energy and Commerce Committee its planned U.S. fabs will be energy‑intensive and need reliable, low‑cost power. The company urged Congress to extend semiconductor investment tax credits and to speed permitting and transmission so its multi‑billion‑dollar investments can proceed.
Manish Bhatia, executive vice president of global operations at Micron Technology, told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that domestic semiconductor manufacturing requires reliable, affordable power and that short interruptions can create very high costs for fabs.
"Each of these full scale fabs built here will run 24 by 7 by 365 days a year and consume, at full build out, about 400 megawatts of power," Bhatia said, describing the continuous load profile that differentiates fabs from many other industrial users. Micron said its planned U.S. investments exceed $100 billion over the next 20 years and that the company expects U.S. energy demand for its…
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