Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are launching the most epic chip-building effort
Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI join forces to launch Terafab, an ambitious chip manufacturing initiative combining logic, memory, and advanced packaging. The project aims to produce AI chips at scale to enable interplanetary travel and a galactic civilization, with plans for a 100 million sq ft Gigafactory and 1 TW annual output.
Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are launching the most epic chip-building effort ever — combining logic, memory and advanced packaging under one roof.
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Terafab will close the gap between today's chip production and the future's demand — a future among the stars.
The Kardashev Scale
We aspire to be a galactic civilization
Type IHarness all the energy on a planet
Type IIHarness all the energy from a star
Type IIIHarness all the energy in a galaxy
Earth
Harnessing the power of the Sun
Maximize utilization of the Sun's energy
Produce AI chips at scale
Unlock interplanetary travel
Delivered 8 M+ vehicles to date
Launched AI-based camera-only unsupervised self-driving vehicles
Designed Tesla Optimus to support large-scale production
Delivered 109 GWh+ of energy storage globally
Built global Gigafactories in record time
Built the first and only lithium refinery in the U.S.
Developed first reusable rockets
Returned human spaceflight capabilities to the U.S.
Launches 90% of global mass to orbit
Operates world's largest space-based internet network
Built largest PCB manufacturing site in the U.S.
Flies world's most powerful rocket ever
Built first GW-scale AI training cluster
Created largest coherent supercomputer
Only company capable of building orbital AI compute at scale
1 Billion
Tesla Optimus robots to do the work
10 Million
Tons of mass/year launched into orbit
1 TW+
Solar power needed
Tesla Optimus Starship V3 AI Sat Mini
10,000,000 ft² Tesla Gigafactory, TX
100,000,000 ft² Terafab
Terafab output 1 TW/Year
Current annual U.S. consumption .5 TW
AI5Powering FSD & Tesla Optimus
AI6Powering Tesla Optimus
D3Powering Space
…and Beyond
Orbital compute
Space: The only truly scalable solution for the future of AI
Cost of compute on Earth
Power build
Permitting
Operating costs
Land
Energy costs
Infrastructure
Cooling
Cost of compute in space
Launch cost
Operating costs
Satellite build
Infrastructure
The next step: lunar mass drivers