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<strong>Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building 'Terafab' chip factory in Texas</strong>; planned 100 million square feet of manufacturing space
Texas was selected for the Terafab project by SpaceX because of its skilled workforce, robust infrastructure, logistical advantages and its so-called business-friendly environment known for its lighter regulatory oversight and low taxes, officials said in describing the site selection for the facility. The Tesla Gigafactory in Austin keeps getting bigger.
A render of the Terafab, taken from a video shared on X by Elon Musk · The scale being claimed remains difficult to reconcile with anything the semiconductor industry has built before. A 100 million square foot footprint is more than ten times the floor space of TSMC’s largest existing fabs, and TSMC is spending roughly US$165bn on six new fabs in Arizona that still occupy a fraction of Terafab’s stated size.
Terafab is designed to bring logic fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing under a single roof — what the semiconductor industry typically distributes across multiple continents and dozens of specialized suppliers.
After months of tax abatement filings and land acquisitions, Elon Musk's SpaceX has officially announced plans for an initial phase of its astronomical Terafab facility in Grimes County.
The big number is aspirational: The gap between the $16.8 billion first phase and the $119 billion headline is the tell. For a five-to-10-year holder, what matters is capital intensity and returns. Fabs are brutally cash-hungry and cyclical, and Terafab would compete for cash with Tesla's other claims: autos, energy, and AI training compute.
For investors, $SKHYNIX and $SNDK remain well positioned to benefit from today's AI infrastructure boom, while Terafab could reshape the global semiconductor industry for years to come.
Tesla broke ground on a research fab in April, the precursor to this plant, after months of speculation. SpaceX then bought Musk’s AI firm xAI and went public in the largest IPO ever. Terafab folds chipmaking into the same stack.
Terafab signals that vertically integrated manufacturing at unprecedented scale is becoming the next frontier for companies racing to control their own semiconductor supply chains. Semiconductor Verticalization — End-to-end chip production under one corporate ecosystem reshapes supply chain control for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace computing. Edge-AI Hardware — Specialized logic and memory devices designed ...
Tesla and SpaceX have committed $16.8 billion to begin construction of Terafab, an AI chip factory planned for Grimes County, Texas, north of Houston. Company filings show the project was relocated from Austin and that total spending across ...
Gov. Greg Abbott announces $16.8 billion SpaceX chip manufacturing plant in Texas | FOX 26 Houston › · SpaceX makes Terafab official, confirms initial $16.8 billion investment ›
SpaceX has officially confirmed Terafab, a massive semiconductor manufacturing project in Texas designed to produce AI chips, memory, advanced packaging, and testing at unprecedented scale.
Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends. ... Semiconductors Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined · Tech Industry ASML CEO says Elon Musk is 'very serious' about TeraFab chipmaking megaproject, confirms direct talks
The scale is unprecedented: Terafab is planned to exceed 100 million square feet of manufacturing space, with Phase 1 requiring approximately $16.8 billion in capital investment and creating at least 3,000 jobs. The longer-term objective is to establish enough in-house semiconductor capacity to support Tesla’s robotics and autonomous systems as well as SpaceX’s increasingly compute...
Tesla has guided for more than $25 billion in capital spending this year—roughly triple its 2025 total—while SpaceX is on pace for far higher outlays after already spending $18.4 billion in the second quarter alone.
The project, which is known as Terafab, marks a major expansion of the firm’s manufacturing presence in the state. The first phase alone will include a capital investment of more than $16.8 billion. It is also expected to create at least 3,000 new jobs, many of them for residents. SpaceX Founder and CEO Elon Musk mentioned, “We’re now embarking on the most epic chip-building effort, combining logic, advanced packaging, and memory all under one roof in Grimes County, Texas.
Here, it's important to distinguish between the research fab in Austin and the mass-production facility in Grimes County. SpaceX's announcement explicitly states that construction has already begun on the former, while for the latter, it only states that it "will build." It also remains unclear how Intel will be involved in the plant, or how SpaceX and Tesla will divide the $16.8 billion investment. The Terafab plant in Grimes County is planned to bring together advanced logi
Tesla has already planned more than $20 billion of capital expenditure for 2026, excluding Terafab and other proposed projects. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Tesla must explain which company will “bear the burden” of supplying billions of dollars for the project.
SpaceX and Tesla are investing USD 16.8 billion to build Terafab, an advanced AI semiconductor complex in Texas aimed at narrowing a growing gap in global chip supply, according to official statements.
Elon Musk says his Terafab chip factory will become Earth's most valuable building, spanning 9 million square meters.