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For fabs it seems like just a bit outside of a city is the optimum location. Chandler (Phoenix) for Intel's new fab and outside of Portland for the other US on

by AdamN 4y ago

For fabs it seems like just a bit outside of a city is the optimum location. Chandler (Phoenix) for Intel's new fab and outside of Portland for the other US ones. I expect it's similar in Taiwan and South Korea. Side note but isn't water a critical input for a fab? Arizona's water problems are going to continue to get worse so this seems like a bad move by Intel.

LatteLazy 4y ago
Yeah, it makes sense to put it not in the centre but within (say) 1h of the centre. Then you can recruit from an 8 figure workforce including multiple universities, offer a huge list of places to live and amenities to workers, meet reliability with everyone from regulators to ambassadors to investors to lawyers, have gold standard infrastructure, etc. I'm never sure when it comes to water. I think a lot of places in the west chose to have shortages by refusing to build infrastructure and wasting supply on subsidizing things like (export orientated, unnecessarily high water use forms of) agriculture. But I am no expert...