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Holy Crap, Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory is Huge
« on: September 10, 2022, 09:46:34 pm »
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 9/9/2022

This may fall into the “old news is so exciting” category for many of you. I knew that Tesla was building it’s Gigafactory east of Austin, and that it was large, but since I almost never travel to that part of town, until this video popped up in my YouTube feed, I had no idea how large.

Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge, lists the footprint as 10 million square feet, making it the second largest building in the world, next to only Boeing’s aircraft assembly plant.

Also astonishing is just how quickly it was put it. Musk threatened to move Tesla to Texas back on May 9, 2020, officially announced it July of 2020, and the construction crew raised the first pillar in December of 2020. If they had tried to do this in California, I bet they’d still be wrangling over environmental impact statements and paperwork.

More: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52535


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