Helium gas powering the world’s most advanced semiconductor processes is suddenly in short supply, threatening to slow down production of the chips driving the AI boom
Do they just off gas the shit and not reclaim and recycle as much as they can? Feels like an open loop system on a dwindling resource. Fucking capitalism brain strikes again.
And yes, I understand there are complexities in even just storing gasses like hydrogen and helium.
Do they just off gas the shit and not reclaim and recycle as much as they can? Feels like an open loop system on a dwindling resource. Fucking capitalism brain strikes again.
And yes, I understand there are complexities in even just storing gasses like hydrogen and helium.
It’s because Iran bombed the Qatari LNG facilities which produces 1/3 of the world’s helium.