TSMC Consumes 9% Of Taiwan's Electricity, And A New Law Would Force It To Generate That Power By Itself
Summary
As one of the largest consumers of electricity in Taiwan, TSMC will soon lose the economies of scale that come with grid-based power. Taiwan now intends to ask all large commercial consumers of electricity to install their own power generation and storage infrastructure, barring a carve-out for schools and hospitals, materially escalating TSMC's electricity-related overheads in the process.