A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home

A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home

Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.

A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home

Azalia King moved into an upstate New York home surrounded by sprawling cattle pastures around 1965, about the time that mass production of the world’s first microchips began. Now, 60 years later, the 91-year-old is on the verge of losing her home to make way for what could become the largest chipmaking complex in the US.Local authorities threatened to exercise their power of eminent domain, or taking land for public benefit, to forcibly uproot …