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The company is also building its own AI chip factory with EV maker Tesla (TSLA), known as Terafab, with the first phase expected to cost roughly $16.8 billion and eventually cover more than 100 million square feet.
On Thursday, August 6, SpaceX and Tesla formally confirmed that Terafab, the advanced semiconductor complex they are jointly developing, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, about an hour northwest of Houston.
Some testers used Grok 4.6 and Claude Opus 5 respectively to process three 3D scenes from Musk's TERAFAB large factory — the external environment at dusk, the clean room production workshop, and the central operation hall with walking workers.
📌 UPDATE — August 14, 2026 Drone footage of the Terafab site in Grimes County, TX has surfaced for the first time, courtesy of aerial photographer Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer). The video reveals a heavily forested, rural landscape dotted with ponds, streams, and cattle — a stark contrast to the industrial scale of wha
And increasingly, that investment extends well beyond compute. SpaceX and Tesla, for example, revealed an initial $16.8 billion investment in Terafab, a massive semiconductor and advanced-computing campus planned for Texas.
Elon Musk anunció la construcción de Terafab, una gigantesca planta de semiconductores en Texas valorada en USD 16.800 millones, diseñada para abastecer la creciente demanda de chips de Tesla, SpaceX y xAI.
Public Terafab material confirms plans involving lithography masks, logic, memory, packaging, and testing. It does not establish that a production-ready FEL will replace conventional EUV sources inside the facility.
The company's proposed US$16.8bn Terafab semiconductor complex in Texas is planned to span 100 million sq ft and support more than 1TW of computing power.
SpaceX and Tesla have commenced construction on Terafab, a massive semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas. Backed by an initial joint investment of £13.1bn ($16.8bn), the site aims to bridge the growing gap between current ...
SpaceX and Tesla are building a 100 million square foot facility they will call TeraFab- northwest of Houston in Grimes County. That’s 5 times larger than the current largest building in China.
Goldberg said SpaceX’s relationship with Nvidia goes beyond chip purchases. Nvidia-powered AI systems could support SpaceX’s ground facilities, Starmind satellites, and expanding computing network. Goldberg sees TeraFab and Nvidia’s $500 billion AI funding plan as potential signs of a deeper alliance between SpaceX and Nvidia.
Construction crews just started building a 100 million square foot chip factory in Texas. What Tesla and SpaceX plan to do with it might surprise every EV owner reading this.
Musk’s full “most epic chip-building effort” statement; chips for Optimus and Cybercabs; draws water from Gibbons Creek Reservoir rather than local groundwater. Manufacturing Dive — “SpaceX to invest $16.8B on first phase of Terafab project,” ManufacturingDive.com, Aug. 2026. Four-phase build, total investment range $55B–$119B; vertical integration rationale; Intel joined the project in early April; eight JETI applications; satellite data centers; stated aim of eventual moon/Mars manufacturing,
Terafab integrará fabricación, empaque y pruebas de semiconductores en una sola instalación y utilizará agua de un embalse cercano para minimizar el impacto ambiental (Captura/SpaceX) SpaceX controla xAI, la empresa de inteligencia artificial de Musk que ofrece un chatbot en competencia directa con ChatGPT, de OpenAI, y con Claude, de Anthropic.
I think the future that everyone ... · AUSTIN, Texas - To stand on the sun-baked soil of Grimes County, Texas, is to watch the boundary line between science fiction and hard reality dissolve into dust....
Terafab is expected to employ at least 3 000 people – and its binding commitment is smaller still. Under a tax agreement with Grimes County, the company must spend at least $5-billion by the end of 2030 and create 1 800 full-time jobs by the ...