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The project’s timeline underscores the absurdity: the site was identified as early as January 2022, before the Chips Act's passage, with Micron’s CEO noting that he had pre-selected the location four years prior. Yet, it took nearly four years just to reach a symbolic groundbreaking in January 2026, after exhausting an environmental review process that delayed the project by more than two years. Despite an accelerated environmental review bill sponsored by Senator Ted Cruz, environmental concerns and legal challenges have kept the project in limbo.