Why are we building chip fabrication facilities in water stressed areas? Worlds biggest fabs are on Taiwan. A small island with very precarious water supplys.
US chips actually is finding new dabs in the US... In Arizona... In Texas... Seriously?!? You have states like Washington where it basically never stops raining, and you want to build a heavy water using industry in a fucking desert?!?!?
The EU is building a big facility in Magdeburg Germany, which is marginally better.
@quixoticgeek “Why are we building chip fabrication facilities” full stop.
@quixoticgeek we can work on reducing & reusing & recycling… in my ideal world…
@becha agreed. Reducing and reusing is always the preferred option. But we're still gonna need some manufacturing capability. Even if just for making chips to cover spare parts.
@becha well we will need some chip fabrication capabilities, but I'd very much like us to stop wasting resources on chips for sparkling autocarrot...