> On the bright side, more Americans are going to find out what living next to a modern chip fab plant is like.
A modern chip fab plant is one of the cleanest industries we have EVER produced.
Everything is really sealed, and even the "waste" gases are purer than what you get directly from most industrial suppliers. It used to be that most of these plants immediately dump industrial gases into their waste stream and purify them to the level they need.
This is different from a PCB manufacturing plant which creates lots of liquid waste that is contaminated with all manner of nasty metals.
A modern chip fab plant is one of the cleanest industries we have EVER produced.
Everything is really sealed, and even the "waste" gases are purer than what you get directly from most industrial suppliers. It used to be that most of these plants immediately dump industrial gases into their waste stream and purify them to the level they need.
This is different from a PCB manufacturing plant which creates lots of liquid waste that is contaminated with all manner of nasty metals.