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3 stories for“terafab”

Tesla and SpaceX Are Building a Chip Plant on a Dead Coal Reservoir

Sixteen point eight billion dollars for the first phase, a hundred million square feet when finished, and a site chosen because a shuttered power station left behind exactly what a fab needs.

Aug 14, 2026

Technology

There Are Now Computers Doing Real Work in Orbit, and a Long Way to Go

The first orbital data centre nodes launched in January and multiple operators ran production workloads by February. The physics is genuinely favourable. The economics depend entirely on launch costs.

Aug 15, 2026

Technology

The AI Race Is Now a Race for Electricity, Land and Cold Water

One operator has raised around eleven billion dollars since late 2023 and another is weighing a hundred-billion-dollar listing. The scarce resource stopped being chips some time ago.

Aug 15, 2026