Musk Plans $16.8B Terafab Chip Plant, Five Times Larger Than World's Biggest Building
fortune · reddit · 2026-08-11
Elon Musk is planning Terafab, a massive semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas. Phase one requires a $16.8 billion investment, covering 100 million square feet—over five times the size of the current world's largest building.
The vertically integrated plant will combine logic, memory, and advanced packaging. It will serve both SpaceX and Tesla, aiming to produce over 1 terawatt of compute annually and create 3,000 new jobs.
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