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Tesla and SpaceX's joint $16.8B investment in the 'Terafab' facility represents a strategic pivot toward vertical integration to meet surging demand for AI training and inference compute. The project aims to bridge current global semiconductor supply constraints with future robotaxi, robotics, and satellite data center requirements through an unprecedented scale of manufacturing space.

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Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

TechCrunchAugust 6, 20263 min read

After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.

Tesla and SpaceX said Thursday that “Terafab,” the advanced chip factory they are jointly developing, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, outside Houston, and that they will make an initial investment of $16.8 billion in the project. The factory will be “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far,” Elon Musk, CEO of both companies, wrote in a…

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