This is short-sited hysterical nonsense. It is much better to build a fab there than to grow food there. There is nowhere near a crisis level of water shortage

This is short-sited hysterical nonsense. It is much better to build a fab there than to grow food there. There is nowhere near a crisis level of water shortage in the Colorado river basin. It’s still well within the planned tiers of the Colorado river compact. AZ’s cut is on par with CA’s. Maybe you’re thinking of NV? A fab uses significantly less water than a farm, can benefit much better from solar, and should be placed in a place like that receives effectively no natural disasters. About the dumbest place to put this would be somewhere on the San Andreas fault or cascadia subduction zone. AZ, NV, and NM are some of the best places for anything expensive that needs stability environmentally.