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by futhey 1028 days ago
In Taiwan it's one of the controversial things that comes up every year when there are electricity shortages or water shortages; whether TSMC should get special treatment, or not.
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Taiwan has electricity shortages? Huh.
Most places have occasional electricity shortages when some power plant has some short term issue, but have a large connected grid that let's them get power from elsewhere.

Ignoring all political difficulties that Taiwan might have doing that, they have a huge population on a tiny island 100 miles from anything else.

They have nuclear power plants but switched them off after Fukushima. Now they use coal and gas plants instead.