Good analysis of the Climate angle. You should ask more questions though. There are reasons why Taiwan makes over 90% of the world's computer chips.

Look up Fairchild Semiconductor. They were the US pioneer of computer chips in the 60's and 70's. They went bankrupt in the early 80's. Because of lawsuits about cancer clusters around their plants.

Chip making is an incredibly toxic industry. The chemicals used are highly carcinogenic. That's a big part of why the industry moved to Taiwan in the 80's. Minimal oversight. They desperately wanted the industry and the jobs (sound familiar).

Taiwan also had an infinite supply of freshwater because it's very rainy there. You have a nice "Great Lake". Chipmaking uses HUGE quantities of water to clean all those horrible chemicals from the chips.

Lastly, Taiwan has the Pacific Ocean to dump the chemical wastewater into. Run a pipeline a few miles out to sea and problem solved. Out of sight, out of mind.

You say you have a nice deep lake?

Taiwan makes the world's chips because it makes them wealthy. In exchange they live in a chemical waste dump. They are OK with that tradeoff.

Are you?

Also, keep in mind that this is a military intervention into the economy. This is not industrial policy. It's strategic necessity. We make only 2% of our demand for chips in the US. We need to boost that to 10% just to be able to make weapons in the event of a hot war.

We are more dependent on Taiwanese computer chips than we are on Saudi oil. We have to defend Taiwan like it's the 51st state until these new plants come online.

You now live in a strategic sacrifice zone.