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Industrial buildings are typically built at dock height. Even if they don't do any grading, that would put the building well above any plausible flooding in tha
by jccooper 7mo ago
Industrial buildings are typically built at dock height. Even if they don't do any grading, that would put the building well above any plausible flooding in that area.
- hinkley 7mo agoIt also turns out that for insurance purposes you are allowed to use infill to get the corner of a property that's below the high water mark above it. At least in some states. Some of the calculus is not about if it will flood it's about if you'll lose your investment if it floods. If an underwriter is willing to cover it, you might go for it anyway.
- ijustlovemath 7mo agoMy point is that we really don't know what "plausible" is anymore with these storms. That much is clear in the data. It seems silly to be so close to a flood zone with your very expensive DUV/EUV machines. There are probably other places they could have placed this facility.
- justsid 7mo agoThey are not fabbing the chips there, just assembling the machines.
- ijustlovemath 7mo agoThe price of the carried inventory is still significant; the scale they mention reaching towards is thousands per day. That's not including the backlog of components they would have onsite to ensure production uptime.
- justsid 7mo agoAbsolutely, but they are not losing a billion+ in EUV machines with year+ lead times in a flood. It'll hurt for sure though and doesn't appear to be the smartest overall move.
- _heimdall 7mo agoI don't think we can both consider FEMA's 1% flood risks and also assume no longer know what plausible is with these storms.
- ijustlovemath 7mo agoI think it's safe to assume given recent storms that the 1% floodplains are _underestimating_ the risk
- _heimdall 7mo agoIt sounds like you know what is plausible then though. Its plausible that 1% is and underestimate and implausible that its an overestimate.