Syracuse, N.Y. — President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. today at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse.
You can watch the president’s speech live below.
Biden is visiting Syracuse to highlight Micron Technology’s plans to spend $100 billion building four giant computer chip plants in Clay.
The president landed in Syracuse just before 2 p.m. He’ll attend an event with Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Gov. Kathy Hochul, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon and other federal, state and local officials at OCC’s SRC Arena.
Biden will be the first president to visit OCC in the school’s 61-year history. You can also watch the speech online through a livestream that will be available on the White House website.
Syracuse.com will have full coverage of Biden’s visit all day. The OCC event is invite-only. The speech is not open to the public.
Idaho-based Micron, the world’s fourth largest semiconductor manufacturer, announced earlier in October that it chose White Pine Commerce Park in Clay for a megafab that it says will create 9,000 direct jobs and more than 40,000 support jobs in Central New York over the next 20 years, as well as 5,000 construction jobs. The decision followed months of lobbying by Schumer, Hochul and McMahon — and a state incentive package worth nearly a $6 billion over 20 years.
Hochul unveiled new details this morning of Micron’s plans to spend tens of millions of dollars in the Central New York community, including a pledge to invest $10 million over 10 years in the city school district’s new STEAM-focused high school.
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