{"id":215498,"date":"2026-03-22T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:27:43","slug":"musk-says-hes-building-terafab-chip-plant-in-austin-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215498\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk says he\u2019s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Elon Musk announced plans to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/816084\/i-think-were-going-to-have-to-build-a-gigantic-chip-fab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terafab<\/a> plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chips at scale for robotics, artificial intelligence, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/871641\/spacex-fcc-1-million-solar-powered-data-centers-satellites-orbit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">space-based data centers<\/a> for Musk\u2019s various companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Musk has expressed concern, as have other executives, about the chip industry\u2019s ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/880812\/ramageddon-ram-shortage-memory-crisis-price-2026-phones-laptops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">keep up with demand<\/a> as the AI industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/848988\/nvidia-chip-loans-coreweave-gpu-debt-ai-neocloud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has boomed<\/a>. But building a chip fabrication plant is complex, requires billions of dollars, many years, and a ton of specialized equipment. And, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-22\/elon-musk-says-tesla-xai-spacex-terafab-to-start-in-austin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> points out, Musk \u201chas no background in semiconductor production and a history of over-promising on goals and timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to Bloomberg, Musk said, \u201cWe either build the Terafab or we don\u2019t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab,\u201d before outlining plans to produce chips that could support up to 200 gigawatts per year of computing power on Earth, and up to a terawatt in space. While Musk gave some details about the scale of the computing power he expected Terafab to produce, he offered no timeline for when it might meet those goals, or even when the facility might come online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4267,132,134,133,8892,223,302,8624],"class_list":["post-215498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-ai","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}