The White House seeks 40% of Taiwan's chip production

Claim

The White House is pushing a compact to keep datacenter expansion from bankrupting households or draining water supplies while demanding 40% of Taiwan's chip production relocate to the US, as Tencent released a 2-bit model that holds accuracy under extreme compression.

Reported metric: 40%

Reporting date: 2026-02-10 (not necessarily the event date)

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