{"id":731526,"date":"2026-08-08T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:40:10","slug":"terafab-elon-musk-to-construct-largest-building-on-earth-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731526\/","title":{"rendered":"Terafab: Elon Musk to construct largest building on EARTH in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk is set to build the largest building on Earth in Texas – a semiconductor megafactory called Terafab.<\/p>\n

Two of the trillionaire’s firms, Tesla and SpaceX, confirmed this week they will jointly build the hulking megastructure in Grimes County, near Houston.<\/p>\n

The initial phase carries a price tag of \u00a316.8billion (\u00a312.5billion), though the total investment across all planned phases could reach as high as $119billion (\u00a388billion).<\/p>\n

Once complete, the complex is set to grow larger than 100 million square feet, making it the largest building on the planet.<\/p>\n

That would be more than five times bigger than the current record holder, China’s New Century Global Centre in Chengdu.<\/p>\n

Mr Musk described it as “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.”<\/p>\n

“It will be stunningly beautiful,” Musk wrote on X, another of his companies. “Sci-fi city is what we’re aiming for.”<\/p>\n

Tesla said both firms “will need far more chips than current and future global production can supply,” with the aim of “producing over one terawatt of compute per year.”<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk is set to build the largest building on Earth in Texas<\/p>\n

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The facility will manufacture logic chips, memory, packaging and testing under a single roof.<\/p>\n

Chips made at Terafab will be tailored for Tesla’s Optimus robots and autonomous Cybercabs, as well as high-power processors for SpaceX’s orbital data centres.<\/p>\n

Intel has confirmed it will contribute to the project, though the specifics of its role remain unclear.<\/p>\n

The factory is expected to generate a minimum of 3,000 jobs, with recruitment focused on Grimes and neighbouring Brazos County.<\/p>\n

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Once complete, the complex is set to grow larger than 100 million square feet<\/p>\n

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SpaceX said it intends to draw water from the reservoir rather than local groundwater supplies.<\/p>\n

The record-breaking project has raised eyebrows on this side of the Atlantic, however.<\/p>\n

Britain’s notoriously overbearing planning laws and energy costs have led critics to bemoan how firms like Mr Musk’s would never choose the UK for such a project.<\/p>\n

“Can you imagine how impossible it would be to try and build something like this here? It would take 50 years,” regular GB News contributor Adam Wren said.<\/p>\n

It will occupy land around Gibbons Creek Reservoir, previously used to cool a coal-fired power station that closed in 2018.<\/p>\n

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In the UK, the notorious HS2 railway is still as many as 13 years from opening<\/p>\n

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In the UK, the notorious HS2 railway is still as many as 13 years from opening – and only then, its first phase from London to Birmingham.<\/p>\n

The total costs of the project have shot past \u00a3100billion – higher than Terafab – and the maximum operating speed has been slashed by 40 kilometres per hour to cut costs.<\/p>\n

On X, software engineer Alexander went viral for his post about Terafab.<\/p>\n

“Imagine this in the Midlands,” he said. “100 million square feet, tens of thousands of jobs, a whole supply chain growing up around it, kids in Stoke or Wolverhampton walking into serious engineering careers at 18.<\/p>\n

“This is what i want britain to be ambitious about. One project like this would do more for the north than thirty years of levelling up speeches.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is set to build the largest building on Earth in Texas – a semiconductor megafactory called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,995,59,50,2331,56,54,55,741,1384,231],"class_list":["post-731526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-elon-musk","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-sgg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}