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Are those numbers really comparable? Agriculture can use more or less any kind of water, can handle sporadic supply and is spread over a wide area. Fabs need ve
by thu2111 5y ago
Are those numbers really comparable? Agriculture can use more or less any kind of water, can handle sporadic supply and is spread over a wide area. Fabs need very large quantities of highly purified water in very small high density locations and it's an industrial facility so can't handle interruptions well. It could easily be that there's a shortage of water affecting fabs whilst agriculture is fine.
- Laforet 5y agoYou are right that fabs require a much higher grade of water but the overall quantity is much less. Yet with farmers suffering the worst effect of the drought it is very difficult for TSMC to expand production without looking like the bad guy who profit at other people's expense. Notwithstanding the fact that the actual amount of water they use is not significant. NYT has a pretty good piece of reporting about the situation: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/technology/taiwan-drought-tsmc-semiconductors.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/tech...
- tekknik 5y agoThe actual link instead of an AMP one (please stop using AMP) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/technology/taiwan-drought-tsmc-semiconductors.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/technology/taiwan-drought...