# Space Economy

Musk’s Orbital Gambit: Inside the ‘Terafab’ Plan to Move Global AI Compute to Space

Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, an ambitious SpaceX-Tesla collaboration in Austin to build 50 times the world’s current chip capacity. The plan involves moving AI compute into orbit to leverage direct solar power and bypass Earth's energy constraints, eventually aiming for an interstellar civilization.