AMD Believes in the Power Of Green

While construction at the new 825,000-square-foot, $200 million Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) campus on Southwest Parkway is already underway, the site won't be complete until 2007. Ever anxious to expand their dominion - and, we're guessing, to make it harder for the Save Our Springs Alliance to prevent their final move - the semiconductor powerhouse has signed a lease for temporary office space at Travis Oaks, where they're moving 200 employees. When all is said and done, the final campus is intended to house over 2,000 workers. From the Austin Business Journal:

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker AMD (NYSE: AMD) has laid out plans to build a 825,000-square-foot, $200 million campus farther west on Southwest Parkway.

The campus is expected to be complete in 2007. It will combine local non-manufacturing operations spread across several site in Austin. About 2,000 employees are expected to work at the new location.

Although AMD has pledged to develop the Southwest Parkway site in an environmentally friendly way, groups such as Austin's Save Our Springs Alliance have urged AMD to choose a different site that doesn't sit on environmentally sensitive land.