{"id":1027402,"date":"2026-08-08T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027402"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:36:56","slug":"spacex-to-build-16-8-billion-chip-plant-in-texas-create-over-3000-jobs-for-engineers-technicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/spacex-to-build-16-8-billion-chip-plant-in-texas-create-over-3000-jobs-for-engineers-technicians\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to build $16.8 billion chip plant in Texas; create over 3,000 jobs for engineers, technicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace major SpaceX and electric vehicle maker Tesla are investing USD 16.8 billion to build &#8216;Terafab&#8217;, an advanced AI semiconductor complex in Texas, designed to narrow a looming gap in global chip supply, according to official statements. <\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the vertically integrated, 100-million-square-foot facility in Grimes County, Texas, will create at least 3,000 high-paying jobs for engineers, technicians, and plant operators, with future expansion phases expected to push total investment significantly higher, SpaceX said in a statement on its website on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace major SpaceX and electric vehicle maker Tesla are investing USD 16.8 billion to build &#8216;Terafab&#8217;, an advanced AI semiconductor complex in Texas, designed to narrow a looming gap in global chip supply, according to official statements. The first phase of the vertically integrated, 100-million-square-foot facility in Grimes County, Texas, will create at least 3,000 high-paying jobs for engineers, technicians, and plant operators, with future expansion phases expected to push total investment significantly higher, SpaceX said in a statement on its website on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027429,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027402\/revisions\/1027429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}