"There is a lot of protest locally over AMDs plan to build a new factory over an environmentally sensitive spot."
Amazing how many mistakes are there in your reply. This is vastly incorrect.
First, there is not "a lot of protest", just the city-wide SOSA ("save our springs alliance", an environment racketeer organization) is trying to do it's dirty job. For example, they have a website where you can cast your vote against AMD relocation, but not "for" - a skewed one-way setup. In contrast, "the Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods, which represents the Austinites living closest to Lantana, strongly welcomes the move".
Second, AMD is not building "new factory" there, they are consolidating design and engineering offices there. Granted, they will make a few prototype motherboards there, but it is not a new semiconductor factory as you alluded.
Third, there is nothing much more environmentally sensitive in that spot than in hundreds of other creeks in the area. SOSA has an excuse to "protect" some tiny lizard while surmounting substantial barriers for businesses raising its costs. You need to decide whether you are going to do business in US and keep jobs here, or protect the lizard, outsource jobs to India, and become jobless. I am really sorry for that lizard, but it has a misfortune to live in a fast developing high-tech city. Why don't that fckheads take it and acclimatize it in some remote nowhere, instead of taking an idiotic attempt to stop progress? Remember, Dell is in the same area where the SOSA gang operates ...
- Ali |
