phil beisel
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Starlink connects Terafab to the Internet
Onsite, the installation of a Starlink Community Gateway and/or Starlink Ground Station is taking shape.
It’s possible rural Grimes County has little or no fiber nearby, making Terafab effectively isolated from the Internet.
But with a Starlink ground station, that changes completely.
Starlink can connect rural communities through specialized ground stations known as Community Gateways. That distinction matters today, but eventually it may not matter much. If (when) Starlink becomes the Internet, a ground station will simply be another Internet “router.”
For Terafab, placing a Community Gateway on site effectively lights up the entire campus with Internet. During construction and thereafter, the whole facility is connected.
Starbase likely has a similar configuration. And so will Starbase II in Louisiana.
(Thanks @PTrubey for pointing this out, thanks to @JoeTegtmeyer for the photo and linked post.)
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Starlink Ground Stations (aka gateways) are how Internet traffic gets to and from the Starlink satellites—and ultimately to and from your terminal.
A request from your Starlink-connected device travels over Wi-Fi to your Starlink terminal, then to a connected satellite, then to a ground station, and from there across the Internet to the target server. The response follows the reverse path. The ground station is therefore a critical part of virtually every Internet transaction over Starlink.
Globally, there are roughly 150–250 operational gateways as of mid-2026 (approximately 150 live, with additional sites under construction or pending).
In the U.S., there are more than 100 operational gateways, distributed across many states as well as Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Their locations are generally chosen to provide coverage while also taking advantage of proximity to major fiber backbones.
Let's add a new one at Terafab.
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