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Michigan loses massive semiconductor plant. Whitmer blames ‘national economic turmoil’
Michigan used taxpayer subsidies to try to land a $55 billion deal with Sandisk. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer now says that won’t happen.
The firm’s decision to drop the project, reportedly valued at $55 billion, followed a years-long effort to assemble the massive property, which the state’s economic developers said was a top site in the nation for such a facility. He predicted the "big, beautiful" tax and spending cut bill Trump signed into law earlier this month will "usher in an unprecedented age of semiconductor growth and high-tech job creation" in the US. “While economic factors outside of the state’s control ultimately proved insurmountable to this greenfield project moving forward in the US, we are proud of the tremendous work … for what would have been a generational semiconductor fab investment,” Messer said in a statement.
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