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this leaves out the issues with the large amounts of water needed for semiconductor fabrication, although another commenter noted that Arizona has pretty good w
by zwirbl 5y ago
this leaves out the issues with the large amounts of water needed for semiconductor fabrication, although another commenter noted that Arizona has pretty good water management (I guess this includes recycling?)
- minhazm 5y ago> Globally, Intel is on track to achieve net positive water use by 2030. Today, in Arizona, we’re already at 95%. https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2021/manufacturing/Intel-in-AZ-Sustainability-Fact-Sheet.pdf https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2021/manufacturing/Intel...
- lazide 5y agoThis is PR. Water needs are local, except where it is explicitly part of the same watershed/supply system. 'Net positive' here means 'we help retain a bunch of water over there... <points to other side of state where no one lives and the water isn't captured well>, and use it over here <points to middle of extreme desert with greater outflows than inflows of water into all sources>', and we're net positive!