General_Effort, 2 months ago

Huh. You’d think they need a reliable power supply. Is that what the money is for?

Tylerdurdon, 2 months ago

“Plans” are just an idea. There’s nothing to get hopeful or excited about until contracts are signed and ground is broken.

bassomitron, 2 months ago

Even then. I won’t be excited until any of these supposed foundries are actually producing chips.

Tylerdurdon, 2 months ago

Building the infrastructure is a huge expense. A lot of that is getting paid when they start to break ground. That doesn’t mean things can’t fall through, but most of the time when land is purchased and they start building on it, things will complete.

Corkyskog, 2 months ago

Depends what level of “building”. I have seen land bought, stripped, foundation prep work started, then all the sudden the plug is pulled.

andrew, 2 months ago

@technology FYI: I used the highlighter.com link because it's a paywall-free archive of the WSJ article

Eric_Pollock, 2 months ago

Lol I’m so sorry you had to go through all those steps just for “They’ve increased the budget and this is what they’re doing.”