specialized Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas — part of an investment the company said will produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure in the next four years.
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Since you are still posting I can only imagine it was your brother that did this.
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Talk is easy. Not cheap this time. Let’s see what actually happens.
AI is for fabricating. The CEO seems to make up things more and more.
Good point, although Arizona is becoming a semiconductor hub.
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Which surprises me because of the water needs for semiconductors.
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It turns out they can use little water once they’re operating because of recycling.
However, over the past two years Gradiant has been working with semiconductor plants, improving their water reuse so that they’re able to recycle 98% of the water they use. So, instead of bringing in 10 million gallons of freshwater a day from outside, these new recycling technologies mean they need to draw only 200,000 gallons of water from outside the plant to operate.
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This is blatantly political and has nothing to do with the topic. I can understand if we are discussing the policy and you have a difference of opinion. Why?
Separately, inflation reduction act passed by democrats encouraged US manufacturing.
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200,000 gallons of water a day is still a lot of water. That is 785 to 1000 homes. That is the very best at 98 percent of recycling. They say most only recycle 70 percent and some as little as 40 percent.
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That’s the older, smaller fabs. I suspect Nvidia’s planned new facility will be state-of-the-art.
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you mean TSM’s or Intel’s right? Since Nvidia does not make chips.
** TSMC expects the new recycling facility, which should be completed in late 2027, to reuse at least 90% of the water used in its first fab.
Jackson says that would bring its projected 4.75 million gallons per day down to about 1 million gallons per day — or roughly the water it takes to serve 3,000 homes.**
TSMC Arizona is on track to use a lot less water than you think.
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Will this be like the Foxconn con in Wisconsin?
How many acres of cotton would that irrigate? I’m sure there is a reason, somewhere, for so much cotton, a crop with particularly high water demand, to be grown in the Arizona desert.
Steve…has been there, and seen the cotton fields.
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They grow alfalfa for Saudia Arabia too but that is all coming to an end. This isn’t the Arizona of the 1950’s.
According to Mr Google, about 74% of the water usage in Arizona is for crop irrigation. But who wants to tip over the farm lobby?
Steve
Google Arizona stopping alfalfa fields.
The Republicans are considering taxing the rich according to the nyt but the link was long trails of unrelated stories.
Corporate taxes are a must to raise.
Inflation reduction act, increased inflation. Dumb.
The reason for Arizona is the lack of seismic activity. Any activity destroys the chip making process.
Then explain why they make them in Taiwan?