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rCLElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world rCo-aspanning a colossal 100M square feetrCY

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

rCLElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon
look like a strip mall.rCY

rCLTesla and SpaceX confirmed Thursday that Terafab, their jointly built semiconductor megafactory, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, just
outside Houston, with a first phase price tag of $16.8 billion.rCY

rCLThe finished complex is slated to top 100 million square feet, a
footprint that would blow past every structure ever built and instantly
become the largest building in the world.rCY

rCLMusk, who runs both companies, called the facility rCLthe largest and
most valuable building on Earth by far.rCYrCY

Yup, that is definitely SciFi City. To be located just outside College Station, Texas so they will have plenty of educated cheap labor from the 100,000+ students at Texas A&M University, my alma mater.

Lynn

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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

oElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world uaspanning a
colossal 100M square feeto

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

oElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon
look like a strip mall.o

oTesla and SpaceX confirmed Thursday that Terafab, their jointly built >semiconductor megafactory, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, just
outside Houston, with a first phase price tag of $16.8 billion.o

oThe finished complex is slated to top 100 million square feet, a
footprint that would blow past every structure ever built and instantly >become the largest building in the world.o

oMusk, who runs both companies, called the facility othe largest and
most valuable building on Earth by far.oo

Yup, that is definitely SciFi City. To be located just outside College >Station, Texas so they will have plenty of educated cheap labor from the >100,000+ students at Texas A&M University, my alma mater.

We'll see what happens when the locals hear of it.
An article I read some time ago was about /deep-red rural Texans/
opposing server farms who were angry with /all/ levels of State
government for ignoring them and their concerns.
Something may be going on in Texas that the Republicans (who control
the State, as I understand it, pretty much from top to bottom) may
find surprising.
But we shall see. Perhaps it will blow away.
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Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world rCo-aspanning a colossal 100M square feetrCY

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

rCLElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon look like a strip mall.rCY

rCLTesla and SpaceX confirmed Thursday that Terafab, their jointly built semiconductor megafactory, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, just
outside Houston, with a first phase price tag of $16.8 billion.rCY

Twenty five billion, easily. You can't pay Hondurans half minimum wage
any more. Well, not as easily.

rCLThe finished complex is slated to top 100 million square feet, a footprint that would blow past every structure ever built and instantly become the largest building in the world.rCY

rCLMusk, who runs both companies, called the facility rCLthe largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.rCYrCY

Yup, that is definitely SciFi City.-a To be located just outside College Station, Texas so they will have plenty of educated cheap labor from the 100,000+ students at Texas A&M University, my alma mater.

Not that cheap. In my experience it is a pretty prosperous undergrad
group of about 55 thousand, plus 15 thousand or so grad students.


William Hyde
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On 8/8/2026 11:48 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

rCLElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world rCo-aspanning a
colossal 100M square feetrCY

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

rCLElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon
look like a strip mall.rCY

rCLTesla and SpaceX confirmed Thursday that Terafab, their jointly built
semiconductor megafactory, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, just
outside Houston, with a first phase price tag of $16.8 billion.rCY

rCLThe finished complex is slated to top 100 million square feet, a
footprint that would blow past every structure ever built and instantly
become the largest building in the world.rCY

rCLMusk, who runs both companies, called the facility rCLthe largest and
most valuable building on Earth by far.rCYrCY

Yup, that is definitely SciFi City. To be located just outside College
Station, Texas so they will have plenty of educated cheap labor from the
100,000+ students at Texas A&M University, my alma mater.

We'll see what happens when the locals hear of it.

An article I read some time ago was about /deep-red rural Texans/
opposing server farms who were angry with /all/ levels of State
government for ignoring them and their concerns.

Something may be going on in Texas that the Republicans (who control
the State, as I understand it, pretty much from top to bottom) may
find surprising.

But we shall see. Perhaps it will blow away.

Construction already started. And it is the world's largest chip fab. Planning to make tens of billions of robot cpus a year.

I am not sure how many cpus each Tesla robot needs. Probably at least a dozen.

Lynn

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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 8/8/2026 11:48 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Something may be going on in Texas that the Republicans (who control
the State, as I understand it, pretty much from top to bottom) may
find surprising.

But we shall see. Perhaps it will blow away.

Construction already started. And it is the world's largest chip fab. >Planning to make tens of billions of robot cpus a year.

I am not sure how many cpus each Tesla robot needs. Probably at least a >dozen.

I'd expect there to be a single system-on-chip with multiple
chiplets. The SoC will have some high-speed commodity
cores (perhaps Neoverse-V grade) and some custom logic
blocks on a chiplet alongside a capable AI inference chiplet
and perhaps a chiplet designed specifically for controlling
the physical actuators.
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Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

Construction already started. And it is the world's largest chip fab. >>Planning to make tens of billions of robot cpus a year.

I am not sure how many cpus each Tesla robot needs. Probably at least a >>dozen.

I'd expect there to be a single system-on-chip with multiple
chiplets. The SoC will have some high-speed commodity
cores (perhaps Neoverse-V grade) and some custom logic
blocks on a chiplet alongside a capable AI inference chiplet
and perhaps a chiplet designed specifically for controlling
the physical actuators.

I'm also curious what they're actually making? Processors, which require
tiny transistors and a very specific high-tech kind of fab? Motor
controllers which require high current giant transistors and a very
different kind of fab? Or hybrid analogue/digital stuff for real
world interfaces, which require a third very different kind of fab?

Or is this multiple fab lines in one big building?

Most companies specialize. Intel pretty much cares only about getting
the highest possible transistor density. ST does some high density
stuff and some high current stuff in different countries. TI does a
lot of different things but they don't seem to be doing any of them
very well anymore. It's going to be interesting to see.

I occasionally get stuff fabbed at a place in the bay area which has
a tiny clean room about the size of my kitchen, and 3" wafer equipment
that looks like what Intel would have been using in the seventies. But
they make absolutely the lowest noise, lowest Rbb analogue circuits
around because that's their niche and that's what their process has
been optimized for. They could probabaly make a Z-80 but what's the point?
It would not be very cost-effective.

In general, big companies that try to bring semiconductor fab in house
wind up losing money on it (although sometimes it can be a win anyway).
Even IBM couldn't get the economies of scale they needed.
--scott
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On 8/9/2026 10:25 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 8/8/2026 11:48 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Something may be going on in Texas that the Republicans (who control
the State, as I understand it, pretty much from top to bottom) may
find surprising.

But we shall see. Perhaps it will blow away.

Construction already started. And it is the world's largest chip fab.
Planning to make tens of billions of robot cpus a year.

I am not sure how many cpus each Tesla robot needs. Probably at least a
dozen.

I'd expect there to be a single system-on-chip with multiple
chiplets. The SoC will have some high-speed commodity
cores (perhaps Neoverse-V grade) and some custom logic
blocks on a chiplet alongside a capable AI inference chiplet
and perhaps a chiplet designed specifically for controlling
the physical actuators.

My Ford 2019 F-150 4x4, per the Ford CEO interview a few years ago, has
130 cpus in it. I doubt that a robot would only have one cpu.

Lynn

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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world rCo-aspanning a colossal 100M square feetrCY

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

rCLElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon look like a strip mall.rCY

Must be to compensate for something...
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On 12/08/2026 00:25, s|b wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world rCo-aspanning a
colossal 100M square feetrCY

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

rCLElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon >> look like a strip mall.rCY

Must be to compensate for something...

It is very pleasing to be the centre of attention some times, as long as
it is not attention from the police nor the courts, but I can't imagine
being or wanting to be the centre of attention at all times.
Perhaps there is a sound financial reason for Tesla and SpaceX to share
a roof?
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On 8/11/2026 9:19 PM, Titus G wrote:

On 12/08/2026 00:25, s|b wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:32:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLElon Musk to build the biggest building in the world rCo-aspanning a
colossal 100M square feetrCY

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/real-estate/elon-musk-set-to-build-the-largest-building-on-earth/

rCLElon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon >>> look like a strip mall.rCY

Must be to compensate for something...

It is very pleasing to be the centre of attention some times, as long as
it is not attention from the police nor the courts, but I can't imagine
being or wanting to be the centre of attention at all times.
Perhaps there is a sound financial reason for Tesla and SpaceX to share
a roof?

No.
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dirty old man.
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