The new Intel campus coming to New Albany, OH, is under heavy construction, and approximately 20 large shipments are being moved through Ohio roads by the Ohio Department of Transportation after arriving at the port on the Ohio River by barge. Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh 900,000 kilograms – that’s 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants. Larger shipments were planned for February but were delayed due to heavy logistics. Large crowds are expected to gather on the route, which may delay it further.
Intel’s 916,000-pound shipment is a “cold box,” a self-contained air structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to make semiconductors. The box is 23 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, about the length of a football field. A large scale cold box requires a transport process that moves at a “parade speed” of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over the streets of southern Ohio in the next few weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to build a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and more manufacturing space. Calling it the new “Silicon Heartland”, the project will be the first leading fabric in the Midwest, and when it is operational, it will start working in the “Angstrom era” of Intel processes, 20A and beyond.
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