Inside TSMC’s struggle to build a chip factory in the U.S. suburbs
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Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.
  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
    192·
    7 months ago

    I still think Arizona is just about the worst spot in the US to put a water intensive chip fab. It should be in the Rust Belt to revive the area and to not use up valuable water in the desert.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      Agriculture is the problem here. Not chip fabs or datacenters. There’s middle eastern owned farms here that grow alfalfa (notoriously water heavy) that export out of state/ country.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    When worker conditions are so bad that they don’t even fly in the USA!