This made me scratch my head as well. The desert isn't exactly known for water supply, and given what I'd read elsewhere about how crucial water is for the proc

This made me scratch my head as well. The desert isn't exactly known for water supply, and given what I'd read elsewhere about how crucial water is for the process, I wondered if I was missing something somewhere. I did a quick search and found this: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/intel-stock-tsm-stock-seek-waterway-to-easing-chip-shortage-in-dry-arizona/ https://www.investors.com/news/technology/intel-stock-tsm-st... The takeaways: - Fab companies have invested in a lot of water reclamation and recycling regardless of location, as there's a lot of metals and other chemicals that need to be filtered out. (Asianometry goes over this more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=785Uzi1mGAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=785Uzi1mGAA ) - Intel claims Arizona's water usage has stayed level in the area as industrial use has replaced agricultural, which uses less. I'm sure there's a cost-benefit play here, where the tax and other incentives outweigh the increased costs of water reclamation.