Gov. Kathy Hochul’s big jobs-creating win is melting away just as her 2026 re-election bid gets underway, as the Micron chip factory fades into the future — at best. Micron just pushed back plans to open the upstate chipmaking operation by five years; instead, it’s reallocating federal CHIPS Act funding to rush construction of a second plant in its home state of Idaho. In October 2022, Hochul and Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra announced a $100 billion investment in a mega-complex of four