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TSMC Arizona chip plant still has 50% Taiwanese workers as production nears (9to5mac.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why the hell are they building in Arizona?

[–] theonlytruescotsman 5 points 3 months ago

Empty land, ridiculously good solar, rare weather events, along enough railways that the products can get anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same reason you can get toyotas built in the US. No import tax.

Also, the US needs it. We can build advanced chips in the US with it there, and it employs/trains Americans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Free money?

Eta: and a state government known to put the water needs of corporations above the people's

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well yeah. They work for less, and are more abusable. That's why you get foreign workers.