Musk’s AI Compute Empire Takes Shape as xAI Plans $119B Chip Factory, Sells Spare Capacity to Anthropic, and Battles OpenAI in Court
Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are converging on multiple fronts simultaneously. SpaceX is considering spending up to $119 billion on a semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, dubbed “Terafab” — a vertically integrated chip manufacturing complex developed alongside Tesla and Intel. The facility is intended to produce chips for AI servers, satellites, autonomous vehicles, and SpaceX’s proposed orbital […]