The Terafab chip manufacturing plant, which is to meet the semiconductor needs of Elon Musk’s enterprises — including SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI — will have an unprecedented area, more than 15 times the size of the Pentagon building.
The Terafab chip manufacturing plant, which is to meet the semiconductor needs of Elon Musk’s enterprises — including SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI — will have an unprecedented area, more than 15 times the size of the Pentagon building.
The potential size of Terafab became known after the construction site was seen from a drone, writes Tom’s Hardware.
In addition, user X Nic Cruz Patane visualized the object, comparing it to other well-known large buildings, factories of technology companies, shopping and entertainment complexes, and other objects.
In particular, it is 10 times larger than Tesla’s current factory — Tesla Giga Texas, 35 times larger than Apple Park, and almost 18 times larger than the largest shopping mall in the United States, Mall of America.
It is reported that the area of the facility will be at least 100 million square feet — this is approximately 929 hectares, which corresponds to the area of approximately 1,300 standard football fields.
It is also larger than all the objects listed in the news combined, and it is more than 5 times larger than the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China — the largest continuous building in the world by area.
«While the amount of space for chip manufacturing may seem absurd, it seems that Terafab will need this space because it will be more than just an artificial intelligence chip factory. It will be a one-stop facility that will also produce memory chips and include lithography, packaging and testing processes under one roof,» the publication writes .
It recalls that Elon Musk started talking about building his own chip factory in late 2025 and officially announced the project in March of this year. The rationale for this project is that both SpaceX and Tesla will need at least 1 TW of computing power, which is more than ten times the current global chip supply.
Previously, dev.ua wrote that Elon Musk is building his own chip factory in Texas — so that Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are not dependent on TSMC and Nvidia. At that time, we wrote in detail about everything known about Terafab.
