SpaceX just unveiled the most ambitious industrial projects ever attempted Terafab will be built in Grimes County, Texas and it is not going to be just another semiconductor factory It is planned to become the largest chip manufacturing facility on Earth, with more than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space The scale is even difficult to comprehend: • Approximately $16.8 billion for the initial phase • At least 3,000 permanent jobs • Logic, memory, advanced packaging and testing under one roof • Chips built for Tesla Optimus and autonomous Cybercabs • High-power chips designed for SpaceX’s orbital data centers • A long-term target of producing 1 terawatt of compute hardware every year Why build something this enormous? Because the combined chip demand from Tesla and SpaceX is expected to exceed 1 terawatt of compute - significantly more than the current global supply can support Instead of waiting for the semiconductor industry to catch up, SpaceX and Tesla are building the missing capacity themselves Tesla is scaling autonomous vehicles and billions of Optimus robots SpaceX is building rockets, satellites and space-based AI infrastructure Terafab will manufacture the silicon beneath all of it This is vertical integration at a scale we have never seen before: - Build the chips - Build the robots - Build the vehicles - Build the rockets - Launch the compute into orbit Most factories are designed around the needs of today Terafab is being designed for a future civilization operating across Earth, orbit and eventually the entire solar system This is literally sci-fi becoming industrial reality