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Elon Musk wants to create his own semiconductor manufacturing plant in Texas; he named his brainchild the Terafab.

This monstrosity, initial investment is about $17bn. and later will cost up to $119 bn., will have 10x the area of the Gigafab.

The goal is in the end to produce in one year 50x the global production of 2026.

Why? Because Musk needs tons of chips: for Tesla, robots and a Level II civilization on the Kardashev scale and putting AI datacenters into earth orbit. No joke. It should produce chips, memory and package processors with 1 Terawatt as annual compute.

Companies involved are SpaceX, Tesla, Intel. First a prototype will be build in the Gigafactory in Texas. The real building should then be located in Grimes county, total size of 9 square kilometers.


 

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Elon Musk wants to create his own semiconductor manufacturing plant in Texas; he named his brainchild the Terafab.

This monstrosity, initial investment is about $17bn. and later will cost up to $119 bn., will have 10x the area of the Gigafab.

The goal is in the end to produce in one year 50x the global production of 2026.

Why? Because Musk needs tons of chips: for Tesla, robots and a Level II civilization on the Kardashev scale and putting AI datacenters into earth orbit. No joke. It should produce chips, memory and package processors with 1 Terawatt as annual compute.

Companies involved are SpaceX, Tesla, Intel. First a prototype will be build in the Gigafactory in Texas. The real building should then be located in Grimes county, total size of 9 square kilometers.


That's about the size of downtown Minneapolis, for those familiar with the area, or Midtown Manhattan with a small slice of Central Park included. For one building (or, more likely, campus).
 
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But no place to put solar panels, it's entirely fossil fuelled.
 

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That's about the size of downtown Minneapolis, for those familiar with the area, or Midtown Manhattan with a small slice of Central Park included. For one building (or, more likely, campus).
"welcome to terafab. i love you"
 

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It's "Costco" in the year 2505(ish), from the movie "Idiocracy", which like climate scientists, *woefully underestimated* how far and how fast America would decline into inbred cranial rectal ineptitude.
 
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What was there before it was removed by a Reddit moderator?
Something about Musk's feud with "Cards Against Humanity".

Probably a reference to this:
 

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Something about Musk's feud with "Cards Against Humanity".

Probably a reference to this:
Yep that was it. =)

Damned reddit moderators... must be on Leon's payroll or something. ;)
 
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I think I might have $10 to spare for this cause.
 

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:facepalm:

And it's such a very low bar to "subpass". And yet, I think he will find ways to sink below that.