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Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure

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At last, we know how Elon Musk’s fabled Terafab will look . Tesla and SpaceX showed a video rendering of their jointly developed advanced chip factory on Thursday. It will occupy 100 million square feet in Grimes County, Texas, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Houston. The sci-fi-looking building is so vast that you could fit six of them in Manhattan. Musk, the CEO of both companies, took to X on Thursday to declare it “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.” Except, you know, it doesn’t actually exist. As with so many of Musk’s grand projects, like the ones he used to sell his inflated SpaceX IPO , this is just a megacool gigafuturistic terarender. Musk’s brand is the epic announcement, and the Terafab launch does not disappoint in that regard. The factory’s website labels itself as “the most epic chip-building effort ever.” It is a cosmic vision, sold as imminent, wrapped in renderings. The question isn’t whether Terafab will ever be real; it’s whether it will be

First report: Elon Musk's Terafab chip factory has rural Texans demanding a say in the AI buildout — businessinsider.com, 5d