Saratoga County has been growing steadily for 20+ years.
It is a unique tourist attraction, home of Saratoga Racetrack.
The area also has some very fine Universities, Rensselaer Polytech, to name one.
IBM also has a strong footpath throughout N.Y., they seem to play nice together as far as i can tell.
I wish I had a crystal ball that tell's me what AMD will do. How they will do.
I'm quit fond of the products of they'res that I've used.
Ahh, that's some of why I read article's here.
peace

I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork; it looks fab to me.

@FAR
For the most part, this is a well-written article. However, I do not think the author has access to an Edit button in which to correct that minor mistake. Almost perfect.

@hoohoo
If you do a web search on "AMD 1465 jobs", the quote refers to when the plant is operating. A PostStar article dated this February gives further details, "Nearly 900 of those jobs will be operators or technicians... Their salaries could range from the mid-$30,000 level to several hundred thousand dollars."

he is actually the comptroller for the entire state and over see's the retirement system for civil servants, firemen, police, etc. as well.

Tom DiNapoli is the comptroller for New York state, the whole state, not just Saratoga county. It is an elected position, voted on state-wide.

Don't know Jimmy DiPasquale. Lots of Italian-Americans up here though, and Dutch-Americans, too.

And I doubt the expanded treatment plant will need an extra 1,465 jobs. Maybe one or two more, but the facility is fairly well automated.

Even if AMD goes fabless, if the fab gets built and operated by someone else, you'd still need the capacity.

If the fab doesn't get built (my bet), well, there's more room then for the gunk flowing from Albany, the (unfortunately nearby) state crapital.

You Brits are peed-off just because Saratoga is where the colonials whipped ole Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne and his army back in 1775 or thereabouts, ending any chance for the British Army to split New England off from the rest of the colonies and collapse the rebellion.

On what basis do you quote 1465 jobs?

Is this during construction, or while the plant is operating?

I thought the firms new goal was to not have assets, now they are building ever crapper assets that they are trying to flog. AMD needs to reevaluate there business model!!

I adore this author's style. But that's "go" rather than "for" is it not?

The mafia is more honest and forthright.