IJR News — today's news from every sideNicole Hardy Tech firms owe a duty of care on AI too, otherwise rushed systems will create problems no one can fix later. Priya Raman Bayer's $2.2 billion plant in New Albany should boost Ohio's economy with those 600 steady jobs making cancer and heart drugs. Derek Foss Savannah prices are brutal compared to the rest of the state. Refining capacity issues always seem to hit right before a holiday weekend. Micron Details Boise Lab, Albany EUV Center funding split — Aug 20, 2026Micron announced Micron Research Labs, a U.S.-based, long-horizon memory and compute research hub headquartered in Boise backed by a $10 billion investment over the next decade, with extensive university collaborations, global satellite labs, and broad ecosystem partnerships. In parallel, the company is funding North America’s first publicly owned High-NA EUV lithography center in Albany, New York as part of a public-private partnership, a $10 billion project with IBM, Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron to strengthen domestic memory technology and manufacturing capabilities.
