TERAFAB
The fab to end all fabs.
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Origin
From boardroom to blueprint
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.
The Site
Outside Houston
100M+ sq ft of planned manufacturing space. “The largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.”
30.55°N, 95.98°W — Grimes County, Texas
The Scale
Built at a different magnitude
Blocks scaled by the square root of floor area so the gap is visible.
Empire State — 2.8M sq ft
Pentagon — 6.6M sq ft
Gigafactory Texas — ~10M sq ft
TERAFAB — 100M+ planned sq ft
The Flow
Vertical integration under one roof
A single conveyor carries wafers through every gate, from raw logic to packaged silicon.
The Split
One planet. One orbit.
EDGE — Optimus, Cybercab, robotaxi fleet
ORBITAL — 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.
The Numbers
The die that changes the math
$16.8B initial
up to $119B multi-phase
100M+ sq ft
3,000+ jobs
1 TW/yr target
30.55°N, 95.98°W