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The largest private investment in Ohio history and the largest project labor agreement in IBEW history broke ground just east of Columbus on Sept. 9.

Intel Corp. expects 7,000 construction workers, including up to 3,000 electrical workers, will be on site for at least a decade, and likely far, far longer.

The $20 billion Intel semiconductor manufacturing campus was just a rumor last December when Newark Local 1105 Business Manager Bill Hamilton first heard about the project.

"It was the best kept secret," Hamilton said, comparing it to the silence that preceded the D-Day invasion during World War II. "It is mind-blowing that we went from whispers in December to President Biden name-checking International President Stephenson at the groundbreaking in September."

Hamilton has been business manager of Local 1105 since 2001 when he represented about 225 members. When the announcement was made, a decade of data center-driven growth had doubled his membership.

Now, he was looking at a single project that could easily put nearly four times that number to work for a decade.

Intel wasn't done.

CEO Patrick P. Gelsinger had a message in public and private throughout the spring: If the CHIPS and Science Act passed in Congress, Intel would quintuple the size of the fabrication facility to $100 billion.

"They did not mince words. It was that direct connection between the CHIPS Act and the investment," Hamilton said.

After an immense lobbying campaign spearheaded by the IBEW, the CHIPS Act passed and President Joe Biden signed it in August, with International President Lonnie R. Stephenson and Fourth District International Vice President Gina Cooper at the White House for the celebration.

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