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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that a project like this will be an “extremely hard” challenge
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Musk is no stranger to both leading and funding projects that otherwise seemed impossible.
Key facts
- It seems that Terafab is Musk’s biggest project to date, which is estimated to require up to $119 billion in investments
- Elon Musk started talking about building his own chip manufacturing facility in late 2025 and officially announced the project in March of this year
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that a project like this will be an “extremely hard” challenge, but it appears that Musk is willing to put his massive resources on the line
Summary
Most megafactories usually take years to go from conceptualization to construction, but a recent drone flyover of the Terafab showed that progress has already started on the ground less than five months after Musk unveiled it. The site will reportedly have a floor space of at least 100 million square feet, making it larger than Giga Texas (10 million sq. ft), the Pentagon (6.6 million sq. ft), Apple Park (2.82 million sq. ft), and the Mall of America (5.6 million sq. ft), combined. While this might seem like an absurd amount of space for chip manufacturing, it appears that the Terafab will need it because it’s going to be more than a chip fab making AI processors, instead, it will be an all-in-one facility that will produce logic and memory chips, as well as have lithography, packaging, and testing under one roof.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that a project like this will be an “extremely hard” challenge, but it appears that Musk is willing to put his massive resources on the line for this.