frozen snapshot — 2026-08-08 · see today →

What's on Elon Musk's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6

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the $16.8B chip fab is really happening 26% · newthe GAO says DOGE's $110B was fiction 20% the $800 billion bounce-back 14% · newwisconsin says the $1m checks broke the law 11% · neweverything else 29%

Musk commits $16.8B to the biggest building on Earth

Tesla and SpaceX will jointly fund a 100-million-square-foot chip plant near College Station, roughly 50 times the footprint of the Pentagon.

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

Reuters · 2026-08-06

our translation

he cannot buy enough compute at any price, so he is building the supplier. vertical integration is the only moat he actually believes in.

new — Abbott confirms site; ~17 outletsvery sure · 4 sources

GAO: DOGE's 'wall of receipts' doesn't add up

GAO report landed August 6very sure · 4 sources

SpaceX spikes 11% on the day insiders could finally sell

new — lockup expired; shares up 11%pretty sure · 4 sources

Brown County hands the Musk election file to a special prosecutor

new — DA recused Aug 7; nine outletspretty sure · 3 sources

saturday, august 8

Post a Terafab render at an unreasonable hour, call the scale insane(safe bet)

Dismiss the GAO report as legacy-media math in under 12 words(safe bet)

Find out whether Flight 13's booster is still floating(reported)

Refresh SPCX after lockup day and screenshot all that green(safe bet)

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

The source

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

news.google.com · 2026-08-08

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