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You can't choose where you're from, but you can choose where you go afterwards.


Arizona seems a particularly bad place to choose freely.

Fabs consume enormous quantities of water and Arizona (and the sw) are already in precarious position, and not even a semi viable theoretical option like desalination possible in the future


There must be something Intel, TSMC, and NXP (fmr. Motorola) saw in the area to build several fabs there.


Talent is the reason. Same reason taiwan works very well.


The water is recycled


>water is recycled

A sweeping statement, like plastic is recycled. It is more complex than that.

It is energy intensive (and expensive) to recycle both low purity and ultra pure water (UPW) used and for some fabs it is just 40% [1] and there is no consistent globally adopted solution, most of the tech used is still evolving and not implemented everywhere.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/fabs-cut-back-water-use




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