Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has two sites in Arizona and one in New York in addition to Austin, Texas, for a new $17 billion chip plant, according to documents filed with Texas state officials.
The tech giant is also seeking combined tax breaks of $1. 48 billion over 20 years from Travis County, Texas and the city of Austin, he said in documents dated February 26, up from the $805. 5 million cited in the past.
Samsung is in talks with the Arizona and New York sites, providing a tax refund on assets and “significant subsidies and/or reimbursable tax credits” to fund infrastructure improvements, according to documents.
The new plant that Samsung plans to build would produce “advanced logic devices” for Samsung’s contract chip production business, and could create only 1,800 jobs, according to previous documents filed with Texas state officials.
Samsung already has a chip factory in Austin that, due to closures caused by a winter typhoon last month, is expected to take a few weeks to resume production.
Samsung is a number of expansion options, a spokesman for the South Korean company told Reuters on Wednesday, without giving additional details.