Overview
- Elon Musk posted a Terafab rendering video on August 9 that prominently shows the Optimus humanoid and the not‑yet‑produced Robovan vehicle inside the planned factory complex.
- Local milestones advanced: Grimes County’s tax‑abatement agreement became effective and SpaceX made an initial $10 million payment under that deal.
- On‑site drone footage shows early construction at the Gibbons Creek location near Giga Texas, while public visualizations depict a factory footprint of roughly 100 million square feet.
- Cost estimates vary dramatically, with reporting putting current‑stage spend in the tens of billions and some projections of total capital needs topping $100 billion, and SpaceX has acknowledged the project could fail.
- Terafab is proposed as an integrated wafer‑to‑packaging chip campus to meet an estimated multi‑terawatt compute need from Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, and Tesla is separately converting Fremont lines toward third‑generation Optimus production with a public target of large‑scale output by summer 2027.