It's many orders of magnitude more energy to fab a chip than to ship it across an ocean. TSMC alone accounts for 12% of Taiwan's electricity demand, and growin

It's many orders of magnitude more energy to fab a chip than to ship it across an ocean. TSMC alone accounts for 12% of Taiwan's electricity demand, and growing fast: https://spectrum.ieee.org/taiwan-semiconductor https://spectrum.ieee.org/taiwan-semiconductor ("TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future" (2024))