Construction of the SpaceX-Tesla Terafab Chip Plant in Grimes County
ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins74% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 74%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 60 daysStatesman[1], 1 September 2026: 'The agreements list a Dec. 1 construction start date and planned completion by the end of 2028'. Completion: 'planned completion by the end of 2028', a target, so the pin is estimated and ends at the exclusive boundary after 31 December 2028.
Terafab's full-scale chip plant is due to start construction on 1 December 2026 at the former Gibbons Creek power station site in Grimes County, Texas, with completion planned by the end of 2028 and an initial $16.8 billion investment.
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