A rendering of the SpaceX Terafab semiconductor factory, which it's building in the rural community of Grimes County, Texas.
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Elon Musk is calling it the "most valuable building on Earth by far."SpaceX on Thursday released several renderings — complete with panoramas and wide angles — of Terafab, the 100-million-square-foot semiconductor factory it's building in rural Texas.The imaginings, which could change, feature a futuristic, Star Wars-like roadway attached to what appears to be the factory, which itself is split into four massive, rectangular-shaped buildings.In a press release, SpaceX said the chips the factory plans to produce will be used in space-based data centers and robotaxis."Terafab will be epic in both its mission and in its sheer size, designed to build new compute at an unprecedented scale and speed," the company said.SpaceX said the "initial phase" of Terafab will cost $16.8 billion. Potential future expansions at the site could drive that already jaw-dropping total "much higher," the company said.Spending such huge amounts on the infrastructure required to power the AI revolution has made many investors, who are still waiting to realize returns on their investments, uneasy. Mega-cap stocks like Google and Meta have seen sell-offs as they continue to spend extravagantly on AI.
