Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla will initially invest USD 16.8 billion to build Terafab, a vertically integrated semiconductor fabrication plant, in Grimes County, Texas, SpaceX announced. This facility will employ at least 3,000 people, many of whom will be from Grimes and nearby Brazos County. A factory with more than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space, the facility is expected to house the manufacturing, packaging, and testing of advanced logic and memory devices. Bringing these aspects together in one location will enable fast, recursive improvements and accelerate new compute deployed, the company said. “Terafab will produce chips optimized for edge computing and inference for use in hardware like Tesla’s Optimus robots and self-driving Cybercabs, along with high-power chips designed for operating SpaceX’s space-based data centers,” SpaceX said.