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    Der wasserfressende Chiphersteller TSMC und das von Dürre geplagte Arizona sind ein unwahrscheinliches Paar, aber Phoenix sagt, dass es genug Wasser gibt


    Der wasserfressende Chiphersteller TSMC und das von Dürre geplagte Arizona sind ein unwahrscheinliches Paar, aber Phoenix sagt, dass es genug Wasser gibt

    https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/tsmc-water-usage-phoenix-chips-act-commerce-department-semiconductor-manufacturing/

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    4. bschmidt25 on

      I live outside Phoenix. The water situation is different for each city / part of the metro. City of Phoenix, which is where TSMC gets their water from, has secure and established water rights and supplies, as do most of the other older cities. In short, they have multiple options for sources of water. The places with issues are new developments on the outskirts where they don’t have any water rights and no existing water infrastructure is in place. They are totally dependent on groundwater. Any new development here has to prove that they have 100 years of water supplies and some of these places can’t do that with groundwater alone.

    5. dethb0y on

      maybe they can stop growing alfalfa in the fucking desert to free up some water.

    6. Westlakesam on

      They didn’t have enough water 30 years ago when I lived there, where are they going to get any more?

    9. iskin on

      Does the manufacturing require fresh water or can they filter and reuse water for most of the manufacturing process?

    10. brettmjohnson on

      I actually wrote software for the semiconductor industry. Most of the water is used for cooling, and therefore recycled.

    13. ClownshoesMcGuinty on

      Yeah, we got enough water for this. No problem.

      But the citizens are on their own.

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