Micron chipmaking factory plans complicated by ‘bat problem,’ Bloomberg reports

Micron Technology has yet to start construction on a multibillion-dollar chipmaking factory planned in New York as the company discovered two endangered North American bat species living in White Pine Commerce Park as part of its environmental review process and now has to find or create a new habitat for the critters, reported Bloomberg’s Mackenzie Hawkins. The bat issue is part of a much broader state and federal review process that’s pushed Micron’s groundbreaking into 2025, but a “delay of a few months is by no means a death knell for the project nor the program overall,” the report added.