I know chips need to be cleaned with ultra pure water - but 10 million gallons?! That sounds like a lot. It's like 20 Olympic swimming pools - 30 acre feet of

I know chips need to be cleaned with ultra pure water - but 10 million gallons?! That sounds like a lot. It's like 20 Olympic swimming pools - 30 acre feet of water... That's about how much 7500 acres of farmland uses per day - a decent portion of which is actually just rain... Is there an easy way to understand why they need THAT much water? IIUC, there's about ~600 chips per wafer (depends on chip and wafer size), and a plant produces ~30,000 wafers per month. That's ~18M chips per month, or ~600,000 per day. So each chip needs ~17 gallons of water?! These chips are TINY - like not even a cubic inch. Volumetrically, that's like 5000x as much water. Why??