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> Making chips takes an immense amount of water This is misleading, modern chip fabs recycle their water basically 100%. It's not being evaporated for cooling

> Making chips takes an immense amount of water This is misleading, modern chip fabs recycle their water basically 100%. It's not being evaporated for cooling like in some data center deployments, it's just part of the process.

uoaei 1y ago
That is of course the ideal, however local economic conditions (low/subsidized water prices, etc.) may dictate a different path by incentivizing another way of doing things (open cooling systems, etc.).
hliyan 1y ago
That is not entirely accurate, as per the article: > TI will use about 1,700 gallons of water per minute when the new Sherman fab is complete, with plans to recycle at least 50% of that
- xyzzyz 1y ago
  Just for context, around 200 times that amount simply evaporates from the Lake Texoma’s surface every minute.
  - hliyan 1y ago
    Would this be the calculation you used? https://g.co/gemini/share/0639e6364e50 https://g.co/gemini/share/0639e6364e50
    - xyzzyz 1y ago
      Basically yes. I googled average lake evaporation rates, and did the same multiplications as Gemini.
      - bilekas 1y ago
        You mean you sis the math yourself? Novel idea these days. /s