{"id":252699,"date":"2025-12-26T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/252699\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:53:13","slug":"tsmc-kumamoto-plant-leaves-concerns-over-water-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/252699\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC Kumamoto plant leaves concerns over water impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    KIKUYO, KUMAMOTO PREF. \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>While the local economy has been boosted by the full-scale launch of operations at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)&#8217;s first Japan plant a year ago, residents remain concerned about its impact on groundwater.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest contract chipmaker kicked off full-scale operations at the plant in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, in December last year. Construction of the company&#8217;s second Japan plant, located next to the first plant, started in October this year for operations set to start at the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The first plant pumps up to 7,500 metric tons of groundwater per day as it requires a large amount of water to clean wafers and other materials. Combined with the second plant, the amount of necessary water is expected to reach about 8 million metric tons a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KIKUYO, KUMAMOTO PREF. \u2013 While the local economy has been boosted by the full-scale launch of operations at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[115990,18,440,19,17,122267,14965,133,380,18707,447],"class_list":{"0":"post-252699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-chipmakers","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kumamoto","14":"tag-manufacturing","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-taiwan","17":"tag-tsmc","18":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115787150462463957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}