Kate Gallego: “Phoenix is very regularly sunny more than 300 days a year.”

“Chips they need to be. The equipment is incredibly expensive. Right. A single tool could cost $400 million. They want to be up and running constantly, so they need reliable business conditions. Phoenix is very regularly sunny more than 300 days a year. We don't have some of the challenges with major earthquakes or we're not in tornado Alley. So the reliable business conditions helped. We did have a strong semiconductor industry to begin with.” (13:17–13:24)

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