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Elon Musk is betting that the next phase of his sprawling technology empire will require a building on a scale that has never existed before. SpaceX and Tesla are building Terafab,\u00a0a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas, more than five times the size of the world\u2019s largest building.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTerafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful,\u201d Musk wrote on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With about 18.9 million square feet of floor space, the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, currently holds the record for the world\u2019s largest building. But Terafab is expected to exceed that quickly: \u201cThe first phase of the Terafab project represents a capital investment of more than $16.8 billion and will create 3,000 new jobs,\u201d Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n

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The accompanying vision is even more ambitious than the building itself. The Terafab website describes the project as a vertically integrated chip factory that will combine logic, memory, and advanced packaging under one roof. Both SpaceX and Tesla will benefit from the facility, which\u00a0is designed to produce more than 1 terawatt of compute annually.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now embarking on the most epic chip-building effort\u2014combining logic, memory, and advanced packaging all under one roof,\u201d said Musk in a press release. The project seeks to \u201cclose the gap\u201d between the chip production necessary for today and the demand for future production when humanity, according to Musk, eventually embarks on space travel.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerafab is bringing cutting-edge manufacturing to America, creating thousands of high-paying jobs,\u201d he continued, \u201cand enabling us to produce AI chips at scale for use on Earth and in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building a future\u2014vertically<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Terafab is less of a conventional semiconductor factory rather than an attempt by Musk to build an enormous piece of his own technology supply chain. Both companies expect their combined demand for computing power to eventually exceed 1 terawatt. Terafab will bring chip manufacturing, packaging, and testing into one singular operation. The project aspires to launch a galactic civilization by harnessing \u201call of the energy on a planet,\u201d echoing Musk\u2019s sci-fi dreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Terafab\u2019s website ties the factory to Musk\u2019s longer-term vision of AI infrastructure. According to the site, the project is intended to produce AI chips at scale, supporting a vision that includes\u00a0 as many as 1 million Tesla Optimus robots, 10 million tons of mass launched into orbit annually, and more than 1 terawatt of solar power.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SpaceX went public in June, raising $75 billion by selling 555.56 million shares at $135 apiece.\u00a0 While the company had an initial valuation of about $1.77 trillion at the time, the public markets have already forced investors to confront the costs behind Musk\u2019s ambitions. SpaceX reported a $541 million loss in its first quarterly earnings report as a public company, despite generating $7.8 billion in revenue. The $16.8 billion announced for Terafab is only the initial investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Musk hopes to use taxpayer dollars to offset some of the costs associated with building the largest single property in the world. The project has filed eight tax incentive applications with the two local school districts, asking to freeze school maintenance and operations property taxes at roughly 48% of appraised value for 10 years per phase. Terafab is asking the state to cover the difference of the maintenance and operations (M&0) and interest and sinking (I&S) taxes using the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation, or JETI, program.<\/p>\n

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The company\u2019s explanation for the tax breaks centered on the cost differential between Texas and \u201ccompeting jurisdictions,\u201d it wrote in the applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsent the limitation, the project IRR would fall below the minimum investment threshold, and competing jurisdictions (e.g., Arizona) would present a more favorable after-tax return,\u201d the application read, \u201cin which case the project would likely be relocated outside Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas is embracing the bet<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To Abbott, Texas is willing to take the hit. Texas extended SpaceX a $30 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant according to Abbott\u2019s press release. SpaceX is already headquartered in Texas, as well as both Starbase\u2019s launch facility and its manufacturing plant. Terafab is just another testament to Musk\u2019s Texas footprint, Abbott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is where big ideas grow even bigger,\u201d the governor said in the release. He called Terafab a \u201cfirst-of-its-kind\u201d facility that would accelerate chip production and create thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Terafab website compares the planned 100 million square feet with Tesla\u2019s roughly 10-million-square-foot Gigafactory Texas and says the facility is designed around production at \u201cterawatt scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

SpaceX and the office of Gov. Abbott both did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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