Differences appear in Intel’s latest renderings of Ohio One plant in New Albany

NEW ALBANY, Ohio ( WCMH ) — The latest renderings of Intel’s Ohio One factory in New Albany show what has changed since its inception.

Intel recently released a video tour of what the campus for its new semiconductor fabrication plant in New Albany could look like upon completion. Work on the project started in 2022.

The video shows a frontal view of an office building adorned with Intel’s logo, which is connected to the fabricator plants. A bird’s eye view included in the video hints the office is in the northern middle sector of the campus, and surrounded by parking lots and tree-lined roundabouts into the grounds. Retention ponds also surfaced around the northeast and northwest corners of the lot.

The overhead view of the plant offers an opportunity to compare the plant’s designs over the course of the course of the project. Intel first shared a rendering of Ohio One shortly after Gov. DeWine and CEO Pat Geisinger jointly announced it was coming in 2022. Another newer, but undated rendering is similar to the top-down view in the latest video. It shows the office building toward the northern end of the site, and shows the parking lots have been split into chunks rather than a large one like in the first rendering. Additional infrastructure appears on the northeast and western portions of the site.

In the video rendering, some of the infrastructure on the northeast and western portions added in the second rendering had been removed, and some had been added to the east. Additionally, bits of land that previously appeared to be rendered as green space now appear set to be paved. But overall, the video rendering aligned pretty closely to the second rendering.

In all three renderings, there are still just two fabs, but the grounds show plenty of empty pavement where more could spring up. In Aug. 2022, Intel spokesperson Linda Qian confirmed that Intel’s permit with the EPA actually allowed for four fabs, and Intel has also said the plant will have the capacity to carry eight.

“Our permit is actually for four factories, but right now we’re focused on the first two that we announced in January,” Qian said at the time. “Adding four factories to the permit does give us the flexibility to move faster. Now, the [New Albany] site does have the capability to hold eight factories, and so we would need to go through the permit process again if we were to expand to the full eight.”

Intel broke ground on the facility alongside President Joe Biden in September 2022. The company confirmed in February that its Ohio One plant, which was originally set for completion in 2025, would not meet its predicted 2025 launch . Instead, crews will finish construction between 2026 and 2027 before the fabs come online between 2027 and 2028.

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