World's largest building with own weather set to be dwarfed by $119bn Texas megastructure

Key Points:

• The Boeing Everett Factory in Washington, the world's largest building by volume at over 472 million cubic feet, could soon be surpassed by SpaceX and Tesla's planned Terafab megastructure in Texas, which is expected to have an internal volume around 100 million cubic meters, potentially 7.5 times larger.
• Terafab is designed to cover more than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space, equivalent to about 1,736 football fields, and could stretch for three miles, making it one of the largest manufacturing facilities ever built.
• The facility, planned for Grimes County, Texas, aims to consolidate manufacturing, packaging, and testing of advanced logic and memory semiconductors to support Musk's ventures including Tesla's humanoid robots, autonomous Cybercabs, and SpaceX's space-based data centers.
• SpaceX has proposed an initial investment of $55 billion for Terafab, potentially rising to $119 billion with additional phases, with the project expected to create thousands of high-paying jobs and receive significant state incentives including a $30 million grant from the Texas Enterprise Fund.
• Elon Musk emphasized that Terafab will bring cutting-edge manufacturing to the US and generate well-compensated employment opportunities, contributing to technological advancement and faster deployment of new computing infrastructure.