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Re:Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan by kamaal on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @12:21AM (#28836012)
>>water shortages and unstable power grids

In Bangalore the tech parks most of the time run on diesel generators. And the water is kind of de-facto supplied through tankers. There is a fair bit of rain water harvesting but they are not putting in enough to use that through borewells.

My guess is something similar will be worked out this time as well.

South Bangalore/Hosur seems like a nice place for something like this.

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Re:Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan by fakedang on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:43AM (#28836461)
As much as I would love to agree (since I have a home in Bangalore on the route to Hosur), it's not really possible. Bangalore suffers from severe water shortages largely exacerbated by developers building over former water harvesting reservoirs. You'll need way too much power and water, that it would just be cheaper to shift manufacturing elsewhere (to, say, Pune).
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