{"id":2569,"date":"2026-03-22T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/musk-says-hes-building-terafab-chip-plant-in-austin-texas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:06:48","slug":"musk-says-hes-building-terafab-chip-plant-in-austin-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/musk-says-hes-building-terafab-chip-plant-in-austin-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk says he\u2019s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elon Musk looking confused over a bunch of question marks.\" data-caption=\"Grok, how do you make chips? | Image: Laura Normand \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Laura Normand \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/STK171_VRG_Illo_15_Normand_ElonMusk_15.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tGrok, how do you make chips? | Image: Laura Normand \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space-based data centers<\/a> for Musk&rsquo;s various companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Musk has expressed concern, as have other executives, about the chip industry&rsquo;s ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/880812\/ramageddon-ram-shortage-memory-crisis-price-2026-phones-laptops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> points out, Musk \u00ab\u00a0has no background in semiconductor production and a history of over-promising on g \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/898722\/musk-terafab-chip-plant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok, how do you make chips? | Image: Laura Normand \/ The Verge Elon Musk announced plans to build a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}