Elon Musk to build the biggest building in the world — spanning a colossal 100M square feet

Nypost · 🇨🇳 public China · Aug 07, 2026 · 758 words · By Mary K Jacob

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Add The New York Post on Google Elon Musk is about to build something so big it will make the Pentagon look like a strip mall.

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Tesla and SpaceX confirmed Thursday that Terafab, their jointly built semiconductor megafactory, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, just outside Houston, with a first phase price tag of $16.8 billion.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office has extended a $30 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant to SpaceX for the project”

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Claim 2: “total investment across all planned phases could still climb as high as $119 billion”

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Claim 3: “The site will handle logic chips, memory, packaging and testing all under one roof”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific internal operations (logic chips, memory, packaging) of the facility.

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Claim 4: “The project is expected to create at least 3,000 jobs”

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Web search results (KAD) explicitly state that the project is expected to create at least 3,000 jobs.

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Claim 5: “The finished complex is slated to top 100 million square feet”

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Multiple independent web sources (KAD, Sawyer Merritt tweet, and other search results) confirm the plan for Terafab to exceed 100 million square feet.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grimes County is a county located in southeastern Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,268. The seat of the county is Anderson. The county was formed from Montgomery Coun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_County,_Texas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services, he…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Terafab is a planned semiconductor fabrication plant jointly developed by Tesla, SpaceX, and Intel. The venture was announced by Elon Musk on March 21, 2026 and centers on the construction of a vertic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terafab

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Claim 6: “Apple Park (2.82 million square feet)”

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Wikipedia confirms Apple Park is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., but the provided evidence does not mention the specific square footage of 2.82 million.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, and known for consumer electronics, software and online services. Founded in 1976 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apple Park, also known as Apple Campus 2, is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States. The campus accommodates more than 12,000 employees, who began mo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apple Inc. has announced major new and redesigned products and upgrades through press conferences, while minor updates often happen through press releases on Apple Newsroom. The press conferences have…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_Inc._media_event…

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Claim 7: “Tesla and SpaceX have said 60% to 80% of new hires at their other Texas sites have come from local residents”

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Claim 8: “Terafab will sit on the Gibbons Creek Reservoir, a body of water once used to cool a coal fired power plant that shut down in 2018”

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Claim 9: “China’s New Century Global Center in Chengdu... tops out around 18.9 million square feet”

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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, has approximately 18.9 million square feet of interior floor area.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jincheng Plaza (Chinese: 锦城广场) is a metro station on Line 1 of the Chengdu Metro in China. It serves the New Century Global Center, the world's largest building measured by floor space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jincheng_Plaza_station

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Buildings around the world listed by usable space (volume), footprint (area), and floor space (area) comprise single structures that are suitable for continuous human occupancy. There are, however, so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Century Global Center (Chinese: 新世纪环球中心), commonly known as Global Center (环球中心), is a multipurpose building complex in Tianfu New Area, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It is the world's third-largest bu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Century_Global_Center

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Claim 10: “the goal is “producing over 1 terawatt of compute per year.””

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Web search results specifically mention that Musk has described annual demand exceeding one terawatt of computing capacity in relation to Terafab.

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web search NEUTRAL — The model breaks down factors that promote, first, striving to achieve a goal, then achieving a goal, and then the factors that connect goal achievement to changes in subjective well-being.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal

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web search NEUTRAL — Frank Lampard exclusively tells GOAL how he has changed since his last Premier League job and why Coventry believe they can defy the odds after 25 years away.
https://www.goal.com/en

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Claim 11: “Tesla and SpaceX confirmed Thursday that Terafab, their jointly built semiconductor megafactory, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, just outside Houston”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Terafab is a planned semiconductor fabrication plant jointly developed by Tesla, SpaceX, and Intel, announced by Elon Musk on March 21, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tesla, Inc. manufactures their products worldwide and also operates a lithium ore refinery. The following is a list of current, future, and former facilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_factories

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Claim 12: “Intel... has confirmed it will contribute to Terafab”

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Claim 13: “the Pentagon (6.6 million square feet, making that the current largest building in the US)”

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While the evidence confirms the Pentagon is the HQ of the DoD, the provided search results do not specify its square footage or explicitly confirm it as the current largest building in the US.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerate…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon

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web search NEUTRAL — In geometry, a pentagon (from Greek πέντε (pente) 'five' and γωνία (gonia) 'angle'[1]) is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. A pentagon may b…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · Pentagon, large five-sided building in Arlington county, Virginia, that serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pentagon

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Claim 14: “the Mall of America (5.6 million square feet)”

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The search results provide general information about shopping malls and Oslo malls, but do not provide the square footage for the Mall of America.

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web search NEUTRAL — A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall

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web search NEUTRAL — Aker Brygge is the modern part of Oslo with many new and modern buildings, many restaurants etc. It is also an area with many tourists due to the restaurants and the location right off the water.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g190479-Activities-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — Hvor finner jeg handlestedene og kjøpesentra i Oslo? (Wheres is the shopping places in Oslo ?) Jeg reiser med offentlig transport / bil / sykkel?
http://oslomall.no/

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Claim 15: “with a first phase price tag of $16.8 billion”

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Multiple web search results (KAD and others) specify that Phase 1 of the Terafab project requires approximately $16.8 billion in capital investment.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Musk family is a family with roots in South Africa, Canada, England, and the United States, whose most famous member is businessman and entrepreneur Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_family

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