Does anyone realize that if SpaceX pulls this off, Terafab would become the largest building ever constructed by floor area? More than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space, over 5x the floor area of the current largest building on Earth. I wanted to wait before reporting because news... was coming out quite rapidly after the until announcement. SpaceX and Tesla are planning to invest roughly $16.8 billion in the initial buildout in Grimes County, Texas. It will manufacture, package and test advanced logic and memory chips under one roof because their combined demand is expected to exceed 1 terawatt of compute, more than the current global supply. The buildout is already so massive that ASML, (the only supplier of the most advanced EUV lithography machines) is factoring Terafab demand into its own 2027 and 2028 capacity plans. Elon’s rough estimate is that 25% of its AI compute output will go toward Tesla Optimus and the other 75% toward AI spacecraft. ASML has to plan years in advance for the sheer amount of chipmaking capacity Elon wants for robots and ‘ai spacecraft’show more

No way Elon picked "GRIMES" County HAHA, it's perfect.

Hope he will provide free compute for us. If he will have so much of compute. 😭

A lot of robots doing a lot of stuff for humanity

Hope. So also computeeee. I Wana to play with 8 H100s in my home hehehe.

I… don’t think they’re gonna necessarily need to rely on ASML (at least in the long term)…

This is an incredibly impressive project. It’s amazing to see Elon pushing technological development forward at this scale. I’m a huge fan of what he’s building. If these numbers are accurate, this facility would be around five times larger than China’s New Century Global Center, currently the world’s largest building by floor area. I think Elon’s idea is to do with chips what SpaceX did with rockets: manufacture as much as possible in one place and under the same company, making the process faster, cheaper, and more efficient. This is awesome!

20 years later… based on the things that he’d propose he would do… I guess it’ll take around 20 years or more, but nice visuals btw

Another top-tier 3D render for a project that will be delayed past the heat death of the universe.

Terafab let's go

We literally all realize that

Yeah, they are not doing half measures here.

Elon really is going full out. These types of projects make you actually understand what type of companies Elon has built. Truly truly amazing.

Gonna be huge if Elon pulls it off

I mean technically looks like 4 separate buildings. Still a record though?

Still waiting on Robotaxi, Mars landing, Australian Solar City, and full self-driving.

Would be great to get the robots working first.

Don't hold ur breath...

SpaceX (with Tesla) has been explicit that Terafab will not lean on the ERCOT interconnection process.

No. They still have to connect to the grid. And they are only providing partial power.

“SpaceX will build its own natural gas-fired power plants to power the facility… SpaceX will not draw from the ERCOT grid in a way that increases costs for other ratepayers.” Where does it say here only partial? Also, why are you ignoring the original claim which was of the ERCOT concerns?

"in a way" They still need grid connection. Which means ERCOT needs more infrastructure, which is in short supply. That's the bottlneck.

Yea, if you don’t cut it, they say so themselves…

“If” doing a lot of work there lol

100 million square feet. At some point you stop calling it a factory and start giving it its own postcode.

Cool. It is wildly apparent that Elon is GOAT when it comes to trolling.

Large scale manufacturer like this will be normalized as the economy expands into space.

not to be pedantic, but is it not four different buildings? I havent seen anyone point that out yet. still though thats probably practical for access

$16.8B for 100M sq ft is roughly $168/sq ft. Cleanroom space alone runs multiples of that. Either this is early phases only or most of that footprint isn't fab-grade.

Nine levels of mountain, undone by one missing basket. Every fab announcement gets sized by capex; the ones that matter get remembered by yield.

I really like no parking spots

Absolutely awesome!

The building’s scale is roughly 1/6th the size of Manhattan… just in floor space.

Building biggest ghost city in the world hoping people will move in, nothing organic about this project, everything hinges on infantile estimates😵‍💫🙄

Denver International Airport (approx. 33,531 acres or 53 square miles) is vastly larger than the planned 100-million-square-foot (approx. 2,296-acre) footprint of Elon Musk’s proposed 'Terafab' semiconductor facility.

california done pissed off the wrong billionaire that hes gonna make texas better than california, "the fab valley"

That scale is absolutely wild. 🚀 If Terafab reaches 100M+ sq ft, it’s not just a factory—it’s an entirely new industrial ecosystem built around AI, chips, and next-gen manufacturing. #Terafab #SpaceX #AI #Semiconductors

"As of the currently available public information, there is no confirmation that Elon Musk has placed a firm purchase order with ASML." -- ChatGPT

Let’s Go!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

I still find the hardware side of AI harder to picture.