r/SpaceXLounge on Reddit: Starbase LA

Elon's companies are doing insanely ambitious things with Starbase LA, Terafab, and the Optimus army all at once.

SpaceX Is an AI Company Now — Live Trading News

Eight are capital or the state: 1789 Capital, NASA, the Department of Defense, the NRO, the Space Force. Five are banks. Four are companies, including Alphabet, Blue Origin and X. Four are silicon, including Nvidia and Terafab, a chipmaker SpaceX co-funds. Three are AI labs.

Tesla Semi factory is getting a celebration nobody expected

SpaceX confirmed its Terafab chip factory would land in Grimes County days before this filing surfaced, with construction on that $16.8 billion project starting almost immediately after local officials met with residents.

TERAFAB's First Project: What the Starlink Ground Station Tells Us

TERAFAB, the ambitious SpaceX and Tesla semiconductor and infrastructure venture, has already notched its first completed project — and it's not a chip fab. Aerospace and infrastructure tracker Joe Tegtmeyer reported on August 24 that TERAFAB has installed a Starlink ground station, the ...

SpaceX’s Grimes County land holdings nearly double in just four days

Last week, KBTX spoke with the Grimes CAD employee who oversees the district’s website and GIS mapping system, who said the appraisal district was receiving new deed filings tied to WIT TECH LLC on a near-daily basis as the Terafab project moves forward.

Scandal-Plagued Texas AG Pivots to Anti-Data Center Platform in Senate Race

Major companies have also made the state home to their most ambitious, flagship AI infrastructure projects, from OpenAI’s Stargate in Abilene to SpaceX’s Terafab in Austin, meant to produce chips to be used in space to power owner Elon Musk’s dreams of a massive orbital data center colony.

Elon Musk Made Me a Millionaire

Tesla and xAI are also working ... Tesla and SpaceX announced a $16.8 billion initial investment in Terafab, a massive semiconductor complex in Texas....

Tesla Optimus Tracker: Milestones & Latest News (2026)

2026-03-14 — Giga Texas Terafab & 10M Optimus Factory: What's Being Built · 2026-03-14 — Tesla Optimus Gen 3 Face Revealed: OLED Display and What's Coming · 2026-03-13 — Korean Battery Giants Eye Robotics as Optimus and Atlas Scale Up · 2026-03-13 — Tesla's Digital Optimus: The AI Agent That Runs Entire Companies · 2026-03-12 — Tesla Autonomy Pop-Up in Austin: See Cybercab, Optimus & FSD Live · 2026-03-12 — Tesla & xAI's Digital Optimus: What AI4 Owners Need to Kn

Elon Musk Terafab, Worlds Largest Chip Factory: What It Is and Why It's Being Built

Everyone, from OpenAI to Google to Musk’s own xAI, is fighting for the same limited pool of advanced chips, mostly made by TSMC in Taiwan on machines built by ASML in the Netherlands. If you’re Musk and you’re running Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI at the same time, you’re competing against your own peers, and sometimes your own companies, for the same fab slots. Terafab is meant to fix that by making Musk’s companies self-sufficient.