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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by imajoredinecon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:38AM (#28683318)
Is it potentially a little narrow to frame "one large corporation... profit[ing]" as the main result of consuming the water?

They're also:

- producing useful things

- employing people to do said production (and design the production process, and the thing that's getting produced)

- paying suppliers for the parts that go into the useful things getting produced

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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by throwaway894345 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:01AM (#28683599)
Yeah, I agree that my framing was narrow. Corporations of course benefit society.

> paying suppliers for the parts that go into the useful things getting produced

I suspect this is overstated considering how much of these parts likely come from abroad, especially from oppressive countries that subsidize their manufacturing via pollution and pseudo slave labor. But still there are certainly American wholesale and logistics jobs which are supported.

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