Gerry McGovern on Nostr: “Chip manufacturing consumes large amounts of water and energy, and emits emissions ...

“Chip manufacturing consumes large amounts of water and energy, and emits emissions through chemicals. TSMC alone consumes about 8 percent of the Taiwan’s electricity. After the petrochemical industry, the electronics industry is the biggest emitter of Taiwan. In 2021, during a drought, the Taiwanese government halted irrigation of farms, so the huge chip factories could use the saved water.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/25/taiwan-struggles-to-reconcile-climate-ambitions-and-chip-manufacturing