Hey, Grok! Let's chat about Elon's plan for a City on the Moon! #Moon #Terafab
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Hey, Grok! Let's chat about Elon's plan for a City on the Moon!
In short, Terafab isn't built on the Moon—it's the Earth-based chip engine that supplies the AI hardware brains for the robots, factories, and mass drivers on the Moon. Without it, the compute scale needed for autonomous city-building (and the cheap launches that make the whole system economical) simply doesn't exist. It's the key missing ingredient in Musk's roadmap to turn lunar sci-fi into reality as part of harnessing the Sun's energy at a civilization-scale level.
This is all tied directly to the March 2026 announcement and ongoing updates from the companies involved. The lunar city isn't just a side project—it's explicitly called out as part of the epic future Terafab helps enable.
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Kind: captions Language: en a city on Mars. And I have the update 14.3.3.3. And we're going to go to the grocery store and home. All right. See which way it goes. Forward or back? Okay. It's going to go in reverse. Okay. So, I just set up the setting always listening under um it's under audio and you check the box that says hey Grock to launch Gro. Hey, Groc. >> Hey there. What's on your mind? >> I wanted since tonight is a blue moon, I wanted to talk about the city on the moon that Elon's building. >> That's a lovely thought, pairing the blue moon with dreams of a lunar city. Elon mentioned shifting focus to a self-growing city on the moon earlier this year, aiming to get it done in under 10 years since trips there are so much quicker and more frequent than to Mars. It's still very early days though, more vision than blueprints right now. The moon makes it so much more real for us here on Earth. Trips take just days instead of months and launches can happen every couple of weeks rather than waiting years for the right alignment. Elon's talking about a self-growing city there in under 10 years, starting with cargo flights as early as 2028. It's exciting to think we'll actually see the first steps in our lifetime.