At the TSMC second-quarter earnings conference and conference call on Thursday, TSMC chairman C.C. Wei (魏哲家) said that after the completion of the company’s US$165 billion investment in the US, “about 30 percent of our 2-nanometer and more advanced capacity will be located in Arizona, creating an independent leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing cluster in the US.”
The Arizona investment includes six advanced wafer manufacturing fabs, two advanced packaging fabs and a major research and development center.
I mean, it could be - the highly filtered water could be re-filtered.
But unless it's cheaper to do so, or they're required by law to do so, they're just going to pump cleaner starting water out of the drinking supply and use that.
And good luck finding a city or state government that's not so desperate for big industry and tech jobs to arrive that they will hold their feet to the fire and demand they cut water use.
As TSMC and Taiwang government policy, they always build it first in Taiwan, run for some years and then build in the US. They keep Taiwan relevant and protected this way.
Yeah, who wouldn't invest locally first when there is an economic advantage to doing so? Their suppliers, talent base, and management are all there already.
