Pax Silica faces costly power, water and land trade-offs

Pax Silica, envisioned as a semiconductor and artificial intelligence hub in New Clark City, would require 3 gigawatts of power and 39 billion liters of water annually. Current plans call for a combination of solar power and liquefied natural gas, or LNG, for energy, along with reservoirs and advanced zero liquid discharge, or ZLD, systems

By Dennis Maliwanag