Tesla Gigafactory Texas · Sentinel-2 + ESRI timelapse

Tesla Gigafactory Texas —
bare farmland to megafactory in six years.

The earliest verifiable signal on Musk’s buildout — county permits and capex filings, tracked first.
21 sites · 131 milestones · every figure sourced.

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Sites

8 ops · 7 expanding

Capital

~$86B

declared investment

Footprint

13.6 km²

industrial area

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🇲🇽 Gigafactory Mexico

Santa Catarina, Nuevo León

2026-05-15

🇺🇸 Vegas Loop

Las Vegas, Nevada

2026-05-15

🇺🇸 Gigafactory Nevada

Sparks, Nevada

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2026-05
Gigafactory Texas
~70 Cybercabs staged in outbound lots (no customer deliveries confirmed)
2026-05
Starbase Launch Site
Flight 12: maiden launch from OLM-B (Pad 2), first Block 3 / Starship V3[src]
2026-05-15
Cape Canaveral
Launch: Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34[src]
2026-05-12
Vandenberg SFB
Launch: NROL-172[src]
2026-04
Gigafactory Texas
Cell phase 2 building permit filed: 200K sqft new addition (Tesla Energy Operations direct contractor)[src]

Musk Empire

21 sites · monthly to quarterly satellite captures · methodology →

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⚡ Tesla

7 sites

Gigafactory Texas — earlier satellite view

Before · ESRI Wayback

Gigafactory Texas — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Gigafactory Texas

Austin, Texas

Cortex

Austin, Texas (inside Giga Texas parcel)

expanding

Progress55%

Area

Est. 500K+ sqft (Cortex 2.0 datacenter buildings)

Capacity

~150K GPU target (Cortex 1: ~50K H100 operational + Cortex 2.0: ~100K H100/H200 under buildout)

Invest

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Gigafactory Nevada — earlier satellite view

Before · ESRI Wayback

Gigafactory Nevada — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Gigafactory Nevada

Sparks, Nevada

Before · ESRI Wayback

Gigafactory Shanghai — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Gigafactory Shanghai

Shanghai, China

Before · ESRI Wayback

Gigafactory Berlin — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Gigafactory Berlin

Grünheide, Germany

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Fremont Factory

Fremont, California

Before · ESRI Wayback

Gigafactory New York — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Gigafactory New York

Buffalo, New York

🚀 SpaceX

6 sites

Starbase Launch Site — earlier satellite view

Before · ESRI Wayback

Starbase Launch Site — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Starbase Launch Site

Boca Chica, Texas

expanding

Progress75%

Area

200+ acres (pads + roads)

Capacity

12 Starship flights/yr

Invest

$1.8B+ (launch-side allocation)

🇺🇸

Starbase Factory

Boca Chica, Texas

expanding

Progress70%

Area

Est. 500+ acres (production + storage)

Capacity

Up to 120 Starships + 100 Boosters /yr (planned)

Invest

$1.2B+ (build-side allocation)

🇺🇸

SpaceX McGregor

McGregor, Texas

All SpaceX engine acceptance testing (Merlin, Raptor, Falcon stage hot-fire)

Invest

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Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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SpaceX HQ

Hawthorne, California

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral · SLC-40, Florida

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Vandenberg SFB

Lompoc, California

🧠 xAI

2 sites

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Colossus 1

Memphis, Tennessee

~555K mixed GPUs · 1M target moved to Colossus 2

Invest

~$18B (cumulative spend)

🇺🇸

Colossus 2

Southaven, Mississippi (also Memphis warehouse acq.)

construction

Progress30%

Area

1M+ sqft (Memphis warehouse) + Southaven build-out

Capacity

350K-550K GPUs target · 1-2 GW

Invest

$20B+ (largest econ-dev project in Mississippi history)

🔬 Neuralink

1 site

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Neuralink HQ

Fremont, California

R&D + limited implant production

Invest

$680M+

Data updated 2026-05-27 · Progress estimates based on satellite imagery, official announcements, and public filings. Methodology →

Announced

5 projects · groundbreaking not started

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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TERAFAB

Austin, TX (Giga Texas North Campus)

Announced

StatusAnnounced

Area

Est. 10M+ sqft (planned)

Before · ESRI Wayback

Gigafactory Mexico — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Gigafactory Mexico

Santa Catarina, Nuevo León

xAI × HUMAIN (Saudi)

Saudi Arabia (specific city TBD)

Announced

StatusAnnounced

Area

TBD (500 MW power footprint)

Capacity

~600K NVIDIA GPUs (announced)

Invest

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Neuralink Austin — earlier satellite view

Before · ESRI Wayback

Neuralink Austin — recent satellite view

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Neuralink Austin

Austin, Texas

Mass implant production

Invest

$200M (est)

Before · ESRI Wayback

Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15

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Vegas Loop

Las Vegas, Nevada

57,000 passengers/hr (full build)

Invest

$600M+

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas —bare farmland to megafactory in six years.

What just landed

Fresh satellite frames

🇲🇽 Gigafactory Mexico

🇺🇸 Vegas Loop

🇺🇸 Gigafactory Nevada

Recent milestones

Musk Empire

⚡ Tesla

Gigafactory Texas

Cortex

Gigafactory Nevada

Gigafactory Shanghai

Gigafactory Berlin

Fremont Factory

Gigafactory New York

🚀 SpaceX

Starbase Launch Site

Starbase Factory

SpaceX McGregor

SpaceX HQ

Cape Canaveral

Vandenberg SFB

🧠 xAI

Colossus 1

Colossus 2

🔬 Neuralink

Neuralink HQ

Announced

TERAFAB

Gigafactory Mexico

xAI × HUMAIN (Saudi)

Neuralink Austin

Vegas Loop

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas —
bare farmland to megafactory in six years.