California Rules And Power Costs Block Semiconductor Fab Expansion

What would it take to put the silicon back in Silicon Valley?

@mattparlmer, founder and CEO of @genfabco:

"It would be very, very cool to put the silicon back in Silicon Valley."

"We certainly have the workforce here at a higher density than anywhere else in the country. Maybe the world."

"But the electricity is just a serious, serious problem. And the environmental regulations, which do exist for a reason... they currently block any serious semi-fab build-out in California."

"You go right over the state line and all of a sudden the electricity price cuts down to like a fifth of what it was. And there's suddenly all this land available to develop."

"California should look to maximize the returns it gets out of having the densest concentration of human capital in the history of the world."