create microchips, which requires extremely stable geology. A power outage or an earthquake can cause lithography machines to miss their target, ruining months of work.

TSMC is intrinsically tied to the land and people.

sure, that's why Taiwan is located on one of earth's most active earthquake regions

edit: bad cropping of image is not my fault, i found it like that on the internet and am to lazy to find another one

edit: here's another one