TESLA × SPACEX × xAI
TERAFAB
The fab to end all fabs.
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02 · ORIGIN
Four dates,
one decision
- NOV 2025
a gigantic chip fab
floated at Tesla’s annual meeting - JAN 2026
we are going to have to build a Tesla TeraFab
— Q4 earnings call - MAR 2026Announced in Austin with SpaceX —
We either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips
- AUG 2026Grimes County confirmed —
$16.8B
initial investment
03 · THE SITE
Grimes County,
Texas
30.55°N, 95.98°W — pasture an hour outside Houston. 100M+ sq ft of planned manufacturing space. “The largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.”
04 · THE SCALE
Largest thing
on Earth
EMPIRE STATE —— 2.8M SQ FT
PENTAGON —— 6.6M
GIGAFACTORY TX —— ~10M
TERAFAB —— 100M+ PLANNED
PENTAGON —— 6.6M
GIGAFACTORY TX —— ~10M
TERAFAB —— 100M+ PLANNED
05 · THE FLOW
Under one roof
Sand in, intelligence out — the entire stack, one building.
LOGIC → MEMORY → PACKAGING → TEST → LOGIC → MEMORY → PACKAGING → TEST → LOGIC → MEMORY → PACKAGING → TEST → LOGIC → MEMORY → PACKAGING → TEST →
06 · THE SPLIT
Edge & orbit
One chip down — Optimus, Cybercab, the robotaxi fleet. One chip up — space-based AI data centers. Target: 1 TW of compute per year. Today’s global output covers ~3%.
07 · THE NUMBERS
The ledger
$16.8BINITIAL INVESTMENT
$119BMULTI-PHASE CEILING
100M+SQ FT PLANNED
3,000+JOBS
1 TWCOMPUTE / YEAR TARGET