E144 - Elon Musk's Terafab: The Impossible Plan for a Galactic Civilization

This past Saturday night, Elon Musk walked onto a stage in Austin, Texas and announced the most ambitious industrial project in human history. It's called TeraFab, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to build a chip factory the size of San Francisco, producing one terawatt of computing power per year. That's more than the entire United States generates in electricity.
In this episode, we break down everything: the $25 billion price tag, the two-chip architecture (one for Earth, one for space), the 100 million square foot facility that hasn't even been sited yet, and why 80% of its output...