Musk announced the largest building on Earth.
It does not exist yet.
Elon Musk says Terafab, a Tesla and SpaceX chip plant planned for Grimes County, Texas, will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.
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there is no building. It is a plan for 100 million square feet, five times the current largest structure, with no operational date announced. 'Most valuable building on Earth' is unfalsifiable on announcement day. The cost has already tripled from a $20-25B float in March to $16.8B for phase one and up to $119B in SpaceX filings. Morgan Stanley pegs a fab this size at $35-45B.
The twist
neither company has ever made a semiconductor. Electrek notes Tesla has 'absolutely zero experience manufacturing semiconductors'. TSMC, with decades of expertise, needed $65B, now $165B, and years of delays for its Arizona site. The blueprint is real. The superlative is a press release.
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- Supports techcrunch.com:
the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far
- Supports fortune.com:
Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful
- Context propmodo.com:
more than five times the size of China's New Century Global Center
- Refutes electrek.co:
Tesla has absolutely zero experience manufacturing semiconductors
- Refutes futurism.com:
somewhere more in the $35 to $45 billion range
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