It doesn’t need to solve a practical problem to be worth making.
Most of what we call progress begins as something that exceeds utility. Art doesn’t solve a problem. A symphony doesn’t fix traffic. A cathedral doesn’t optimize logistics. They exist because humans reach for what is unnecessary and, in doing so, expand what is possible.
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The foundations for an exciting future are being built in Texas. Next up: Terafab → spacex.com/updates#terafab
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TERAFAB: the next step to becoming a galactic civilization
Together with @SpaceX & @xAI, we're building the largest chip manufacturing facility ever (1TW/year) – combining logic, memory & advanced packaging under one roof.
To harness as much power as possible from the Sun, we need to send 100 million tons of solar capture into space – per year.
This requires massive scale.
– Capability to launch millions of tons of mass into orbit
– Solar-powered AI satellites
– Millions of @Tesla_Optimus robots to help build it out
All of these need chips: 100-200GW of chips for Optimus alone, plus terawatts for solar-powered AI satellites.
That's more than all the chip manufacturers in the world combined can provide today, or even by 2030 (based on projected production growth).
We're building TERAFAB to close the gap between today’s chip production & the future's demand – a future among the stars
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Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMzlv…
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One Team 🚀
x.ai/news/xai-joins-spacex
