Terafab

The most epic chip-building effort ever

Terafab will close the gap between today's chip production and the future's demand —
a future among the stars.

The Kardashev Scale

We aspire to be a galactic civilization

  1. Type IHarness all of the energy on a planet
  2. Type IIHarness all of the energy from a star
  3. Type IIIHarness all of the energy in a galaxy

Harnessing the power of the Sun

  • Maximize utilization of the Sun's energy
  • Produce AI chips at scale
  • Unlock interplanetary travel

We're builders.
We've done the impossible before.

Tesla
  • Delivered 8 M+ vehicles to date
  • Launched AI-based camera-only unsupervised self-driving vehicles
  • Designed Tesla Optimus to support large-scale production
  • Delivered 109 GWh+ of energy storage globally
  • Built global Gigafactories in record time
  • Built the first and only lithium refinery in the U.S.
SpaceX
  • Developed first reusable rockets
  • Returned human spaceflight capabilities to the U.S.
  • Launches 90% of global mass to orbit
  • Operates world's largest space-based internet network
  • Built largest PCB manufacturing site in the U.S.
  • Flies world's most powerful rocket ever
xAI
  • Built first GW-scale AI training cluster
  • Created largest coherent supercomputer
  • Only company capable of building orbital AI compute at scale

A chip factory built for Earth and orbit

Combining logic, memory, and advanced packaging all under one roof

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Scaling for massive capacity

1 Billion

Tesla Optimus robots to do the work

10 Million

Tons of mass/year launched into orbit

1 TW+

Solar power needed

Tesla Optimus, Starship V3 and AI1 shown to scale Tesla Optimus AI1 Starship V3

Production at terawatt scale

Producing chips for use on Earth and in space

AI5
AI5Powering FSD & Tesla Optimus
AI6
AI6Powering Tesla Optimus
D3
D3Powering Space
and Beyond
…and Beyond
Always sunny in space

Orbital compute

Space: the only truly scalable solution for the future of AI

Cost of compute on Earth

  • Power build
  • Permitting
  • Operating costs
  • Land
  • Energy costs
  • Infrastructure
  • Cooling

Cost of compute in space

  • Launch cost
  • Operating costs
  • Satellite build
  • Infrastructure

The next step: lunar mass drivers