On: TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona

[connicpu]

We'll use anything but metric lol. It's about 1,233 cubic meters of water.

[syncsynchalt → connicpu]

The comparable unit (in terms of estimating irrigation needs vs rainfall vs reservoir draw, which are the terms we reason with in this part of the US) would be the hectare-meter, which is 10,000 cubic meters.

[kkg_scorpio → connicpu]

Which is incidentally only 1% off from half an olympic-size swimming pool.

In other words, the fab requires about 20,000 swimming pools of water every year... or equivalently, 1 swimming pool every 27 minutes.

[bialpio → kkg_scorpio]

For context, https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/swimming-pool-stats/ estimates that there are ~500k residential pools in Arizona. Note that those will likely be smaller than a half olympic-size swimming pool.