Ireland shows that new plants can be technologically very exciting. Intel Ireland factory
(Photo: Daniel Balteanu)
Leixlip Intel management has just finished speaking at the Irish chip factory in Leixlip, Greater Dublin. The delegation from Saxony-Anhalt is already preparing to get up. Then Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff surprisingly took the floor: “That’s exactly how we want it to be,” the CDU politician comments on the company representatives’ statements on environmental protection and citizen participation.
He is convinced that Intel is dealing with a company that not only abides by the applicable law, but also pursues a societal approach, meaning that it takes the local people with it. “It’s a different corporate philosophy than elsewhere,” explains the 68-year-old.
Tesla does not mention Haseloff with a syllable. But it is also clear that the sovereign is firmly assuming that Intel will not build its new plants in Magdeburg – unlike the American electric car pioneer in Grünheide in Brandenburg – but in agreement with the authorities and local people.
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