God damn, a screenwriter would be scolded by their editor for being too heavy handed if they went half as far as this article says.

We woke up one morning and farded a little further down
For sure as the valley of death
I open up my wallet
And it's full of poop

Last time they did this, China dumped all over the market and killed all the competition after they invested a ton of money.

I don't think it will come to that. The investors will spend a lot of money and everything will be way over budget and years late

Well damn, here I was thinking its greatest sins were slavery and genocide.

As I just posted to Yogthos, it's the downtime that will be costly here. The mirrors and prisms can be made cheaply enough when you take China's supply chain and large scale manufacturing into account, but the loss of production will have to be reduced somehow. Lasers require incredible precision; the difference between just barely touching the allen wrench and not can make the beam go from centered on target to completely off the detector. This translates to hours of tedious adjustments to get the beam back on target, even with alignment pins.

I mean, as-is with much lower power lasers, it's written up as a cost of operation. What used to be parts that were installed once and then never touched are now regular maintenance tasks.

I don't think the mirrors and prisms will be the expensive part in the grand scheme of things, but the downtime to shift spots and replace components will be expensive.

An EUV laser blasting at 1 kW is gonna absolutely chew through optical components. I hope they're making some serious advances in materials science. Contemporary components like mirrors, attenuators, filters, etc start degrading when you blast them with more than 1W of DUV.

Call it an application fee. Landlords do that shit all the time

Ask them to pay a deposit to be considered. Ghost them immediately after they pay.