Elon Musk Plans to Spend $119 Billion to Construct the World's Largest Building, Just Outside Houston
The first phase is priced at $16.8 billion and the complex is expected to produce chips for Tesla robots, Cybercabs and SpaceX data centers.
- On Thursday, Tesla and SpaceX confirmed their jointly developed project, Terafab, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, just outside Houston. The massive semiconductor megafactory aims to address an existential shortage of computing power.
- Tesla framed the undertaking as a response to an existential shortage of computing power. The companies aim to produce over 1 terawatt of compute per year, exceeding current global production capacity.
- The first phase carries a price tag of $16.8 billion, though total investment could reach $119 billion. Once complete, the complex is projected to exceed 100 million square feet, claiming the title of largest structure on Earth.
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott's office offered a $30 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant for the project, expected to generate at least 3,000 jobs. Hundreds attended a county meeting the day before to voice objections over transparency.
- The site sits on the Gibbons Creek Reservoir, where the facility will handle logic chips for Optimus robots and Cybercabs. SpaceX intends to draw water from the reservoir rather than local groundwater, addressing resource strain in Texas.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to "Terafab" in Texas on more than nine million square meters. What will be produced there in the future.
Elon Musk's $16.8 Billion Chip Factory Could Become the World's Largest Building
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla are initially investing $16.8 billion in Terafab, a planned 100-million-square-foot Texas chip factory that could become the world's largest building and supply advanced chips for AI, robots, autonomous vehicles and space-based computing.
Everything's Bigger in Texas: Elon Musk's SpaceX, Tesla Plan Chip Plant 5X the Size of World's Largest Building
SpaceX and Tesla are building a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, that would dwarf the current record holder for the world's largest building.
Elon Musk Plans to Spend $119 Billion to Construct the World's Largest Building, Just Outside Houston
SpaceX and Tesla just announced a semiconductor megafactory in Texas that would dwarf every building on Earth, but the gap between what is legally committed and what Elon Musk is promising raises a question worth asking before the groundbreaking.
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