Greg Jackson doesn’t have a window in his office, but he says he doesn’t need one. As the facilities manager for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s massive new factories in north Phoenix, Jackson spends a lot of time away from his desk, on his feet.Jackson’s responsibilities cover the mundane and the complex. One moment, he is overseeing the janitorial staff that keeps the office windows clean, and another he is managing the delicate etiquette of shipping and receiving sensitive chemicals. And he will continue to oversee the construction of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the U.S. on a plot of desert near Interstate 17, a vast project that, over the next six years, will rise literally from the dust.As with all new growth in the desert, the facility requires water, and semiconductor manufacturing is a particularly water-consumptive industry. That, too, falls under Jackson’s purview, everything from the fountain outside the office entrance to the facility’s massive internal water treatment facility, which will handle the equivalent of a 90,000-person town’s wastewater.The Arizona facility is being built to mimic its “mother fab” in Taiwan, where TSMC has already invested heavily in water reuse at its existing fabs. Company officials say the new facility in Arizona aims to be as efficient as possible. With blueprints in hand, Jackson’s job is to make that statement a physical reality.“I live here. I’ve got a family here,” said Jackson, who’s lived in Arizona for 28 years. “The last thing I want to do is use all the water. We want to be good stewards of water and be good community citizens.”TSMC says …
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