SpaceX to Build Texas Gas Plant and Battery Array for Tesla Semiconductor Facility

SpaceX, Elon Musk's space exploration company, plans to build its own power generation facilities to support a large-scale semiconductor manufacturing facility it is developing with Tesla in Texas. Riley Trettel, who oversees SpaceX's energy and data center development, said at a public meeting in Grimes County, Texas, that the company would bring its own power, building a natural gas power plant and a large battery array to store electricity. The arrangement aims to provide a stable power supply for the chip factory, with storage systems to regulate power load. SpaceX's energy project will directly serve the operational needs of the semiconductor manufacturing base. The specific scale, construction timeline, and investment amount for the power plant and battery storage facilities have not yet been publicly disclosed. The public meeting did not reveal further technical details or project progress.