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SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels
The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.
SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will…
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