Terafab construction: how SpaceX, Tesla, and Intel are building the world's largest chip factory on 6,000 acres of dead Texas coal plant — $119 billion, 100 million square feet, 1.4 nanometre chips.

The Gibbons Creek coal plant shut down in 2018. On August 6, 2026, SpaceX confirmed it as the Terafab site. Ground breaks December 1, 2026. What follows is the most ambitious semiconductor factory construction in history: 50,000 concrete piles driven 100 feet to bedrock, a 2.5-mile steel skeleton, 12 ASML EUV machines worth $400 million each, and a dedicated 5-gigawatt power plant built beside it because the Texas grid cannot supply what this factory needs.

This documentary visualizes the full Terafab engineering and construction process — from site demolition to first chip

What's in this video:

How 50,000 piles are driven 100 feet to bedrock for a foundation that never shifts

How a 5GW off-grid power plant is built because ERCOT cannot supply Terafab

How 12 ASML EUV machines worth $400M each are installed on air bearings in ISO Class 1

How Intel 14A builds 1.4nm chips across 600 process steps — the first Terafab chip

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00:00 - The $119B Terafab Vision

01:12 - Demolition & Soil Decontamination

02:52 - Bedrock Anchoring: 50,000 Concrete Piles

05:17 - The One-Mile Steel Skeleton & Subfab

07:44 - Engineering an ISO Class 1 Cleanroom

09:33 - The 5-Gigawatt Off-Grid Power Plant

11:11 - Producing Ultra-Pure Water at Scale

12:06 - Installing the $400M ASML EUV Machines

14:07 - 600-Step Atomic Chip Fabrication

16:18 - Autonomous Wafer Routing & Facility AI

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⚠️ IMPORTANT: ABOUT THIS VIDEO

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This is an educational documentary about a confirmed infrastructure project, based entirely on open-source public information. Terafab breaks ground December 1, 2026. All construction visuals are 100% AI-generated conceptual representations based on confirmed project specifications — no real construction footage was used.

Footage & Fair Use: Includes a 4-second educational archival clip of Elon Musk used strictly for identification under 17 U.S.C. § 107 (Fair Use). All other visual content is original.

Purpose: Strictly non-commercial and educational.

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