Water is another scarce resource needed in abundance.
With Taiwan recently facing its worst drought in nearly a century, TSMC is no stranger to recycling the massive amount of water it needs to make chips. TSMC will take 4.7 million gallons of water daily to run the first Arizona fab, but it will bring that demand down to 1 million gallons a day, in part by recycling some 65% of that, the company said.
It also takes a massive amount of power to make chips.