Terafab Texas Chip Plant Bets on Gas, Bypassing Tesla Solar
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SpaceX's Terafab mega-chip factory in Grimes County, Texas will be powered by newly built natural gas plants and large battery arrays, with no Tesla solar in the plan despite Tesla’s partnership; the site sits on a former coal plant and aims to churn out over a terawatt of compute annually for SpaceX and xAI, plus future chips for Tesla, marking a gas-first approach for AI data centers amid debates over solar power and reliability.
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