TSMC Arizona chip plant still has 50% Taiwanese workers as production nears

A full half of the jobs created by the first TSMC Arizona chip plant have been filled by workers from...

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Why the hell are they building in Arizona?
- Same reason you can get toyotas built in the US. No import tax.
  
  Also, the US needs it. We can build advanced chips in the US with it there, and it employs/trains Americans.
- Empty land, ridiculously good solar, rare weather events, along enough railways that the products can get anywhere.
- Free money?
  
  Eta: and a state government known to put the water needs of corporations above the people's
Well yeah. They work for less, and are more abusable. That's why you get foreign workers.