US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says if China were to reunify with Taiwan, the US would be devastated due to the ramifications that would hold for the chips market.
    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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      4 个月前

      This is the really bonkers part. Fabs use ridiculous amounts of water. Whoever thought that about-to-be-walloped-by-climate-change Arizona was a good spot is either insane or part of some sort of grift.

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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        4 个月前

        The majority of Arizona's water goes to agriculture which would be impacted more by climate change (currently using ~6000 gigalitres a year)

        Compare that with

        The average semiconductor facility uses 7-15 megalitres of pure water per day; Intel used around 34 gigalitres of water in 2015.