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What's on Elon Musk's mind?

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the $16.8B chip fab is really happening 25% · newthe GAO says DOGE's $110B was fiction 20% · newthe ‘elon premium’ isn’t what it was 17% satellite factories on the moon 11% · neweverything else 27%
#1
Terafab Confirmed: $16.8 Billion, 100 Million Square Feet, 50 Pentagons

Tesla and SpaceX are jointly funding a Texas chip plant Musk says will be Earth's most valuable building, with SpaceX taking triple Tesla's compute.

SpaceX, Tesla to initially spend $16.8 billion on Terafab chip plant in Texas

Reuters · 2026-08-06
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if you can't buy enough chips, buy the factory. and if the factory is absurd enough, nobody can accuse you of thinking small — the scale IS the pitch to the shareholders who just dumped him.

new — Abbott confirmed $16.8B on Aug 6very sure · 5 sources
#2
GAO: DOGE's Wall of Receipts Doesn't Add Up
new — GAO report landed Aug 6very sure · 4 sources
#3
$87 Billion Gone in a Day, and Everyone's Arguing About the Dip
Worst Tesla week since 2022pretty sure · 5 sources
#4
'I Know This Sounds Totally Nuts': Musk Wants Factories on the Moon
new — Pitched on first earnings callpretty sure · 4 sources
friday, august 7
Post one more Terafab stat that makes the Pentagon look small(safe bet)
Rebut the GAO's DOGE audit at length, on X, with numbers(safe bet)
Check SPCX at the open and call the dip an opportunity(reported)
Keep sparring with France's Greens over banning X(reported)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Elon Musk’s Terafab Will Be Earth’s Most Valuable Building, 50x the Size of the Pentagon

news.google.com · 2026-08-07

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