alt Hacker NewsI don't know about other countries but in Canada, I can think of a few aluminum smelting operations and they're all geolocated in close proximity to hydroelectric dams.
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PlunderBunny • last Monday at 10:34 PM
In New Zealand, a hydroelectric dam was effectively build for an aluminium smelter [0]
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter
auspiv • last Monday at 10:11 PM
Other countries are very much the same. Almost always located near giant hydroelectric generation facilities. Brazil + Russia are two big ones that come to mind. Probably China too.
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I heard a story from a usually reliable friend, that there are old decommissioned aluminium smelters on the river or in the mountains east of Portland, that closed up back in the early 2000s or so when Google and Amazon and other datacenters started showing up and buying all the capacity from the hydroelectric dams nearby.