Isn’t semiconductor production notoriously water intensive? Wouldn’t it make more sense to built the facility somewhere near a body of water and/or cold environment and not a place where the government issued warnings for people to stay indoors if they have no good reason to be outside because of the heat?
Isn’t semiconductor production notoriously water intensive? Wouldn’t it make more sense to built the facility somewhere near a body of water and/or cold environment and not a place where the government issued warnings for people to stay indoors if they have no good reason to be outside because of the heat?
I vaguely remember someone's logic saying that Arizona would willingly sell the company what little water they had or something
Arizona's water usage is like 75 percent agricultural, chips probably give per return on water use than alfalfa
indeed https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/tsmc-water-usage-phoenix-chips-act-commerce-department-semiconductor-manufacturing/
you raise a lot of good points