TESLA · SPACEX · XAI — GRIMES COUNTY, TEXAS
TERAFAB
The fab to end all fabs.
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02ORIGIN
From a float
to a footprint.
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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 2026
Announced in Austin with SpaceX.
We either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips
. - AUG 2026 Grimes County confirmed — $16.8B initial investment.
03THE SITE
The ground outside Houston
is already glowing.
100M+ sq ft of planned manufacturing space — the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far
, rising out of East Texas prairie.
30.55°N 95.98°W — GRIMES COUNTY
04THE SCALE
It doesn’t beat the giants.
It buries them.
EMPIRE STATE2.8M sq ft
PENTAGON6.6M
GIGAFACTORY TEXAS~10M
TERAFAB100M+ planned
Blocks grow by square root of floor area — or the others wouldn’t register at all.
05THE FLOW
Vertical integration,
under one roof.
Wafers ride the line through LOGIC, MEMORY, PACKAGING, TEST — without the building ever letting them leave.
06THE SPLIT
Two chips leave
the same line.
EDGE descends — Optimus, Cybercab, the robotaxi fleet. ORBITAL ascends — space-based AI data centers — goal: one terawatt of compute per year; today’s global output covers ~3% of what Musk’s companies expect to need.
07THE NUMBERS
$16.8BINITIAL
up to $119BMULTI-PHASE
100M+SQ FT
3,000+JOBS
1 TW/yrTARGET