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Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over southern Ohio's roads for the next several weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to create a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and room for more. Calling it the new "Silicon Heartland," the project will be the first leading-edge semiconductor fab in the American Midwest, and once operational, will get to work on the "Angstrom era" of Intel processes, 20A and beyond.

I don't know why, but I've never thought of the transport logistics involved in building a semiconductor fabrication plant.

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[-] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 107 points 4 months ago

Looks like they put the oversized load on a boat for as long as they could, but have to do the last leg by road.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 78 points 4 months ago

I mean, everyone has been crying and whinging for years, decades even, that the USA needs to ramp up semiconductor fabrication in case shit goes south in Taiwan. We are finally getting some domestic production power and we're getting outraged by the traffic delays? America will sink itself because of our people's own addiction to comfort and complaining about any slight to that comfort.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago

Is this going to raise gas prices!!?!

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Does anything NOT raise gas prices?

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago
[-] randombullet@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

They need to raise gas tax to offset EVs, ergo, higher gas prices!

[-] Silentiea 2 points 4 months ago
[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

True 1% people.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Oh don't worry, states are already working on mileage taxes for EVs. A few even already have them in place.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I haven't switched over fully to EV even but I'm actually FOR higher gas prices (go ahead throw your stones). Like high enough that the rich fucks in UAE don't get richer because it actually causes people to drive less and that surcharges get used towards things like helping families that have suffered from Pb exposure and efforts to offset carbon emissions and fund clean energy research.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I agree with you...the cost of a gallon of gas is, and has always been, less than the cost to remove a gallon of gas worth of CO2 from the atmosphere, and I don't think the price should ever have been less than that amount. I don't think that's an unfair position, cleaning up your mess should be a part of the cost of the good.

But man what a way to fuck the majority of the 99%.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe temporarily, but I think it would help the push back for more remote working, more thoughtful use of transportation, better motivation to use and build public transportation. It's getting back to what op was saying about America's unwillingness to bear some pain points that can allow for real progress and ultimately more comfort.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

The top two things any given American will complain about on a local level.

  1. The terrible condition of their local roads
  2. Roadwork to fix the terrible condition of their local roads.
[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Don't forget the taxes that pay for said roads

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I don't even think this is complaining about mild inconvenience, it's just outrage addiction that has taken over most of the country.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

Yep, the fab plant is a little east of Columbus (just south of where I live actually). This is one of like 2 dozen "super loads" that has to make its way from the Ohio River up to the plant. I swear there is a website somewhere that keeps track of when the are coming, the routes they take, and the closures involved but my Google-fu is failing me now.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

If it makes you feel any better it's probably Google that's failing, not you

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Even before Google stopped working, I'm not sure the results of googling "super load" would have been what you are looking for.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Try "super loads AND when they are coming?"

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

site:reddit.com Columbus super load

[-] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Look at the bright side, once intel gets this new plant up and running cranking out next-gen chips, Google will be able to fail you even faster!

[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

As excited as I am to see my home city actually growing and gaining national attention, I miss the chill cow-town vibes. Traffic is only gonna get worse from here.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Columbus will always be growth limited until it gets some goddamn light rail/subway in place.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

WORLD'S. FASTEST. BULLETTRAIN. NETWORK.

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