By Ken Sain | Chandler Arizonan
Intel uses a lot of water. And it’s not just the regular water that flows through Arizona’s canal that it needs.
“We wouldn’t be here without Chandler,” said Aaron Blawn, Intel’s operations site manager. “And we couldn’t continue to grow without the City of Chandler.”
The company is wrapping up about $20 billion in new construction, building two new fabs to manufacture semiconductor chips at its Ocotillo campus. Those operations will require even more water.
“The big punch line is when [the two new manufacturing fabs] are fully ramped up, we expect to be using less water than we had on the entire site before they came,” said Blawn, one of the speakers at the Chandler Chamber of Commerce’s Policy Impact Series on April 7.
