The Chip Account: What It Costs the Planet to Make One Chip

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition What I Built TheChipAccount — an interactive, data-driven dashboard that makes visible the hidden environmental cost of manufacturing a single semiconductor chip. Every phone you unlock, every GPU that trains an AI model, every laptop you open — the silicon inside it started life as a blank 300mm wafer inside a semiconductor fabrication plant. That fab consumed thousands of litres of ultrapure water, hundreds of kilowatt-hours of elec