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SpaceX, Tesla to splash out $16.8B on AI-chip facility in Texas
"Everything's bigger in Texas": Seems like Elon Musk is taking that old saying to heart. The billionaire entrepreneur on Thursday announced that SpaceX and Tesla will spend nearly $17 billion to build a massive AI chip complex in Grimes County, Texas. The planned 100-million-square-foot Terafab plant will employ at least 3,000 people, Musk said, to produce the cutting-edge chips needed to support SpaceX's orbital data centers and Tesla's Optimus robots. That $16.8 billion is just the start, though — Terafab's total cost could ultimately reach as much as $119 billion.
Elon Musk is making one of his biggest manufacturing bets yet with plans to build a massive artificial intelligence chip complex in Texas. Announced on Thursday, the project will be a joint effort between SpaceX and Tesla and is expected to transform Grimes...
