Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days
Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over southern Ohio's roads for the next several weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to create a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and room for more. Calling it the new "Silicon Heartland," the project will be the first leading-edge semiconductor fab in the American Midwest, and once operational, will get to work on the "Angstrom era" of Intel processes, 20A and beyond.
I don't know why, but I've never thought of the transport logistics involved in building a semiconductor fabrication plant.
But how many football fields does it weigh?
About 4,000 washing machines.
Metric or imperial?
Yes.
Cheeseburgers per freedom
Imptric of course!
Those are some incredibly heavy washing machines.
Well a football field is 57,600 sq ft, and a cubic foot of dirt weighs between 110-140 lbs depending on composition. That means that an average football field at a depth of one foot weighs around 6,912,000 lbs.
This thing weighs 916,000 lbs. So it is 0.1325231481 football fields.
But how deep do you have to go to comprise a football field? At what depth does it stop being a football field and become just a normal field?