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Elon Musk plans 100 million-square-foot terafab semiconductor plant near Houston
Fox Business • • business
Key Points:
- SpaceX announced plans to build Terafab Texas, a semiconductor plant in Grimes, Texas, projected to be the largest building in the world at over 100 million square feet.
- The facility, a joint effort with Tesla, will manufacture advanced logic and memory chips for applications including Tesla’s Optimus robots, self-driving Cybercabs, and SpaceX’s space-based data centers.
- Terafab aims to address a significant chip supply shortage, with combined chip demand from SpaceX and Tesla exceeding global supply, prompting the need for domestic production.
- The project is expected to create over 3,000 jobs and initially cost approximately $16.8 billion, with total investments potentially reaching $119 billion.
- This initiative represents a major investment in American manufacturing and technology, significantly surpassing the size of the Pentagon and China’s New Century Global Center, currently the largest buildings in the U.S. and world respectively.
