Financial troubles have forced Intel to delay building and equipping its site in Ohio on multiple occasions, and now that the timeline has slipped to 2031, it is beginning to impact Intel's partners. NBC4i reports that the company now expects to start making chips at its Ohio fab in 2031, which leaves American Electric Power (AEP) Ohio with an idle power substation that cannot start operations without Intel.
Intel's decision to delay the launch of its Ohio semiconductor facility, once called Silicon Heartland, to 2031 has left AEP Ohio with completed but idle power infrastructure that costs $95 million. The utility company built a major substation specifically to meet Intel's expected power needs, but now it must wait years before it can start generating a return on its investment.
