Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar

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SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and “very large battery arrays.” Tesla solar isn’t in the plan. The plant sits on the site of a former coal-fired power plant, and SpaceX plans to power it with newly built natural gas plants and batteries. Advertisement - scroll for more contentThere’s no mention of Tesla solar anywhere in the power plan, even though Tesla co-owns the project. He’s going gas-first with zero Tesla solar.