"Energy?" Mel repeated. "What do you mean by that?"
"Energy, meaning electricity," Timothy said. Finally, he has a platform to express his concern over one vital thing that would make operational expenses cheaper. "Electricity is vital for any industry. The gigafactories and the semiconductor fabrication facilities draw enormous amounts of power. Do you have any idea how much?"
Mel blinked in surprise. "How much power are we talking about, exactly?"
Timothy leaned back slightly, hands clasped together. "A single gigafactory consumes around 2.5 to 3 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, that's equivalent to the annual power usage of an entire mid-sized city. Now imagine adding multiple fabrication plants into that equation. Each semiconductor fab, depending on its size, can draw as much as 200 to 300 megawatts continuously. That's like running several industrial zones twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week."
