Musk launched the “TERAFAB” project at an event inside the old Seaholm power plant on Saturday night. He said production would start at an Austin facility and thanked Gov. Greg Abbott for his support.
Billionaire Elon Musk announced a massive project to produce chips to power his companies, with production beginning at a facility in Austin .The “ TERAFAB ” project is a joint effort involving Tesla , SpaceX and xAI.
Musk said the chips will be used in vehicles, Tesla’sMusk launched “TERAFAB” at an event inside the Seaholm power plant downtown on Saturday night. Bright beams of light projected from the building into the sky, Musk said the chip production was necessary to fuel his companies’ growth. He shared an ambitious vision for the future powered by TERAFAB, including billions of robots and interplanetary travel. “We want to be a civilization that expands to the galaxy with spaceships, that anyone can go anywhere they want at any time,” he said. “And have a city on the moon, cities on Mars, populate the solar system and send spaceships to other star systems.” These projects require more chips “than all the chip manufacturers in the world combined can provide today,” Tesla said in itson X. “We're building TERAFAB to close the gap between today’s chip production & the future's demand – a future among the stars.”“The current output of AI compute is roughly 20 gigawatts per year,” he said. “All of the rest of the output from Earth is about 2% of what we need.” Musk also said Gov. Greg Abbott was in the audience Saturday. He thanked Abbott and the state of Texas for their support.Musk didn’t share concrete details about the project’s footprint in Austin or the timeline for construction or production. KUT News has reached out to Tesla and SpaceX for answers.
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