{"id":44412,"date":"2026-01-23T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/?p=44412"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:06:42","slug":"defacto-world-ep-17-arizona-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/?p=44412&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Defacto World Ep 17. Arizona USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Defacto World Ep 17. Arizona USA. From Copper Mines to Chip Factories: Arizona&#039;s $120 Billion Secret\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eMVL3yPOBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Arizona has 7.4 million people &#8211; twice Mongolia&#8217;s population. But 70 years ago, economists said building cities in this desert was impossible. Today? It&#8217;s &#8220;Silicon Desert&#8221; &#8211; home to $120 billion in chip manufacturing, the engineering marvel that pumps water UP 800 meters, and copper mines 3x larger than Oyu Tolgoi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this documentary, I explore what happened &#8211; and what Mongolia can learn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd11 KEY POINTS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How Arizona pumps the Colorado River uphill for 540km<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why copper mining expertise transferred to semiconductor manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The politician who fought for water rights for 30 years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 lessons Mongolia can apply today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona has 7.4 million people &#8211; twice Mongolia&#8217;s population. But 70 years ago, economists said building cities in this desert was impossible. Today? It&#8217;s &#8220;Silicon Desert&#8221; &#8211; home to $120 billion in chip manufacturing, the engineering marvel that pumps water UP 800 meters, and copper mines 3x larger than Oyu Tolgoi. In this documentary, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,221,264],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[267],"class_list":{"0":"post-44412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-documentary-2","8":"category-life-2","9":"category-life-en"},"authors":[{"term_id":267,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"Admin","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/logo1.png","url2x":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/logo1.png"},"author_category":"","first_name":"Admin","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44419,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44412\/revisions\/44419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44412"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jargaldefacto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=44412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}