• MattsAlt [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, have a degree focused on chip making. There’s going to be something like 50k jobs not filled and a lot are highly technical. Many STEMlords are not interested in a job that forces you into a cleanroom in a less than ideal location when they could code or do other jobs that are remote/ based in a large metro for as much or more

      US needs to heavily incentivize these programs in schools and find a way to raise pay for the positions if they ever hope to outcompete Taiwan

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        This is the really bonkers part. Fabs use ridiculous amounts of water. Whoever thought that about-to-be-walloped-by-climate-change Arizona was a good spot is either insane or part of some sort of grift.

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          The majority of Arizona’s water goes to agriculture which would be impacted more by climate change (currently using ~6000 gigalitres a year)

          Compare that with

          The average semiconductor facility uses 7-15 megalitres of pure water per day; Intel used around 34 gigalitres of water in 2015.