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> used nine billion gallons of water "About 80% of that water was captured after use and purified at treatment plants operated by Intel and the city of Chandle
by ars 4y ago
> used nine billion gallons of water
"About 80% of that water was captured after use and purified at treatment plants operated by Intel and the city of Chandler, then either returned to the fabs for reuse in manufacturing or its cooling towers, or reused within the city or injected into the ground to recharge the aquifer."
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands/2022/03/04/arizona-semiconductor-intel-tsmc-water-use/6915685001/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands...
- RC_ITR 4y ago>Intel has two campuses in Chandler with multiple fabs, for example, which used about 16,000 acre-feet (5bn gallons) of municipal water in 2020... About 6,200 (1.5bn gallons) acre-feet of water were treated on-site and reused without entering the municipal wastewater system. Oh wow, about 1/3 of the 5 billion gallons of water this one campus was used at least more than once. Problem solved!