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It's many orders of magnitude more energy to fab a chip than to ship it across an ocean.

TSMC alone accounts for 12% of Taiwan's electricity demand, and growing fast:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/taiwan-semiconductor ("TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future" (2024))



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