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SpaceX plans an initial $55 billion Terafab chip and AI megafactory in Grimes County, Texas, as part of Elon Musk\u2019s broader Austin-centered semiconductor and compute build\u2011out.<\/p>\n
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SpaceX is preparing to pour an estimated $55 billion into the first phase of its Terafab super\u2011factory in Texas, according to a recent notice from Grimes County officials and market reports tracking the project. A filing shared by local representatives on X states that \u201cthe County of Grimes, Texas, will be home to SpaceX\u2019s multiphase, next\u2011gen, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility,\u201d with \u201cestimated capital for initial phase\u201d of $55 billion and \u201cestimated total investment of $119 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project, dubbed Terafab, was first unveiled in March as a joint semiconductor initiative between Tesla, SpaceX and Musk\u2019s AI company xAI in the Austin area. In remarks reported by\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>, Musk called Terafab \u201ca grand plan to eventually manufacture [our] own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence and space data centers,\u201d and said the complex would be built in Austin and \u201cjointly run by Tesla and SpaceX.\u201d<\/p>\n Coverage from\u00a0Fortune<\/a>\u00a0and other outlets indicated the initial cost of Terafab would be in the $20 billion to $25 billion range, with the first fab rising adjacent to Tesla\u2019s Giga Texas plant in Austin. A detailed breakdown from\u00a0Fintech Weekly<\/a>\u00a0described the launch event at Austin\u2019s Seaholm Power Plant, noting that Tesla\u2019s CFO pegged the early estimate at \u201cbetween $20 and $25 billion\u201d and that the facility would consolidate \u201cchip design, lithography, fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing\u201d under one roof.<\/p>\n The new Grimes County documentation suggests SpaceX is now planning a separate or expanded Terafab footprint beyond Austin, with the \u201cSpaceX Reinvestment Zone No. 1 \u2013 2026\u2011001\u201d designated around the Gibbons Creek Reservoir area and a public hearing scheduled for June 3. The notice characterizes the site as a \u201cmultiphase\u201d complex for semiconductor manufacturing and advanced compute, implying a long\u2011term build\u2011out that could eclipse earlier cost estimates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Musk\u2019s stated goal for Terafab is to ultimately produce enough custom silicon to support roughly a terawatt of computing power per year, powering Tesla\u2019s autonomous vehicles and Optimus humanoid robots as well as SpaceX\u2019s satellites and planned space data centers. As\u00a0Yahoo Finance<\/a>\u00a0has reported, Terafab is being pitched as a vertically integrated answer to Musk\u2019s chip supply constraints, with Tesla, SpaceX and xAI seeking to reduce dependence on external foundries like TSMC and Samsung.<\/p>\n The $55 billion figure tied to SpaceX\u2019s Texas super\u2011factory underscores just how capital\u2011intensive that ambition is\u2014and how aggressively Musk is betting that in\u2011house chip capacity will be a competitive edge across electric vehicles, AI, and space infrastructure.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SpaceX plans an initial $55 billion Terafab chip and AI megafactory in Grimes County, Texas, as part of Elon Musk\u2019s broader Austin-centered semiconductor and compute build\u2011out. Summary Local filings in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27732,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731\/revisions\/27732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}