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from the wikipedia link - they use sewage/greywater for cooling: > The power plant evaporates the water from the treated sewage from several nearby cities and
by zdw 4y ago
from the wikipedia link - they use sewage/greywater for cooling:
> The power plant evaporates the water from the treated sewage from several nearby cities and towns to provide the cooling of the steam that it produces.
- miguelazo 4y agoThis treated sewage is the water that Vegas now provides for general use, and what AZ will need just for its people in about 5 years. Wasting it on chip production is going to go over slightly better than the Saudis wasting groundwater on alfalfa.
- thehappypm 4y agoThey could literally truck Evian water in if they wanted to. Water is extremely cheap compared to just about every substance on earth, and it’s hard to imagine that water costs can be a problem for this type of operation.
- miguelazo 4y agoYou're assuming that the severe undervaluing of natural resources in the US will simply continue. Try taking a field trip to a place (including the US), where people can't drink the water that comes out of their tap, and you'll get a better idea of where this leads. In no universe can TSMC use bottled water, much less Evian, and be competitive.