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.
22 sites · 146 milestones · every figure sourced.

See the pulse →All 22 sites

7 ops · 11 expanding

Capital

~$79B

declared investment

Footprint

12.6 km²

industrial area

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·Last capture 2026-10-04·How we count

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SpaceX Hawthorne most recent satellite capture

🇺🇸 SpaceX Hawthorne

Hawthorne, California

Vegas Loop most recent satellite capture

🇺🇸 Vegas Loop

Las Vegas, Nevada

Vandenberg SFB most recent satellite capture

🇺🇸 Vandenberg SFB

Lompoc, California

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Recent milestones

2026-09-28
Starbase Launch Site
Flight 14 from Pad 2: first Starship to reach orbit — 26 Starlink V3 deployed, booster Gulf splashdown, ship splashed down in the North Pacific after an early deorbit[src]
2026-09
TERAFAB — Austin ATCF
Main slab concrete pour connecting the reinforced footings (drone-observed)[src]
2026-09
Gigafactory Nevada
Semi volume-production launch + customer deliveries[src]
2026-09
Colossus 2
~550K GPUs operating (110K GB200 + 440K GB300)[src]
2026-09-04
Gigafactory Texas
Cybercab paid public rides open in Austin[src]

Musk Empire

22 sites · monthly to quarterly satellite captures · methodology →

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🤝 Tesla × SpaceX

2 sites

TERAFAB — Austin ATCF — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

TERAFAB — Austin ATCF — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-22

TERAFAB — Austin ATCF

Austin, TX (Giga Texas main campus, east of the vehicle factory)

489,600 sq ft building (TDLR) on a ~500 m × 175 m construction site

Prototype / research fab (low-volume wafers); volume at Grimes County

Undisclosed (research fab) · program: $16.8B phase 1 at Grimes County

TERAFAB — Grimes County — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

TERAFAB — Grimes County — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-22

TERAFAB — Grimes County

Grimes County, TX (SE of Gibbons Creek Reservoir, ~20 mi E of College Station)

~555 acres cleared for phase 1 (Sep 2026) · 22,429-acre JETI project boundary · up to 100M sq ft planned

Full-scale AI5 / 2nm chip production (phase 1)

$16.8B phase 1 (Tesla + SpaceX) · up to $119B all phases

⚡ Tesla

8 sites

Gigafactory Texas — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Gigafactory Texas — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-22

Gigafactory Texas

Austin, Texas

Cortex

Austin, Texas (inside Giga Texas parcel)

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

Cortex 1: >100K H100-eq (>90 MW) · Cortex 2: >130K H100-eq (>115 MW), both in production (Q2 2026)

Gigafactory Nevada — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Gigafactory Nevada — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-22

Gigafactory Nevada

Sparks, Nevada

Semi 50K/yr (new factory) · LFP 7 GWh · 100 GWh 4680 (2023 plan)

Gigafactory Shanghai — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Gigafactory Shanghai — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Gigafactory Shanghai

Shanghai, China

Gigafactory Berlin — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Gigafactory Berlin — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-27

Gigafactory Berlin

Grünheide, Germany

375K+ Model Y (Q2 2026)

Gigafactory Mexico — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Gigafactory Mexico — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Gigafactory Mexico

Santa Catarina, Nuevo León

4.2M sqft (planned)

1M+ vehicles/yr (original 2023 plan)

Fremont Factory — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Fremont Factory — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Fremont Factory

Fremont, California

550K+ Model 3/Y (Q2 2026)

Gigafactory New York — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Gigafactory New York — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Gigafactory New York

Buffalo, New York

10K Solar Roof/yr

🚀 SpaceX

6 sites

Starbase Launch Site — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Starbase Launch Site — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-27

Starbase Launch Site

Boca Chica, Texas

200+ acres (pads + roads)

Up to 25 Starship launches/yr (FAA, May 2025)

$1.8B+ (launch-side allocation)

Starbase Factory

Boca Chica, Texas

Est. 500+ acres (production + storage)

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

$1.2B+ (build-side allocation)

SpaceX McGregor — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

SpaceX McGregor — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-22

SpaceX McGregor

McGregor, Texas

Est. 1,500+ acres

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

SpaceX Hawthorne — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

SpaceX Hawthorne — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-10-04

SpaceX Hawthorne

Hawthorne, California

Every Falcon upper stage + Dragon (165 Falcon launches in 2025)

Cape Canaveral — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Cape Canaveral — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral · SLC-40, Florida

~100 Falcon launches from Florida (2025) · Starship: 44/yr LC-39A + 76/yr SLC-37 approved

Vandenberg SFB — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Vandenberg SFB — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-27

Vandenberg SFB

Lompoc, California

SLC-4E + SLC-6 (under construction)

64 Falcon launches in 2025; up to 100/yr approved

🧠 xAI

2 sites

Colossus 1 — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Colossus 1 — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Colossus 1

Memphis, Tennessee

~220K+ GPUs (H100/H200/GB200) · ~300 MW

Colossus 2 — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Colossus 2 — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-16

Colossus 2

Memphis, TN (Tulane Rd data halls) + Southaven, MS (turbine plant)

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

~550K GPUs operating (110K GB200 + 440K GB300) · Musk target ~1.2M by end-2026

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

🔬 Neuralink

2 sites

Neuralink HQ — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Neuralink HQ — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-21

Neuralink HQ

Fremont, California

R&D + limited implant production

~$1.3B+ raised ($650M Series E, Jun 2025)

Neuralink Austin — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Neuralink Austin — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-09-22

Neuralink Austin

Del Valle, Austin, TX (2200 Caldwell Ln)

~112K sqft on a 37-acre campus

Mass implant production

$14.7M buildout (2024) + $8.2M expansion (2026)

🕳️ The Boring Company

1 site

Vegas Loop — earlier satellite view

Before · Sentinel-2

Vegas Loop — recent satellite view

Now · Sentinel-22026-10-03

Vegas Loop

Las Vegas, Nevada

68 miles (planned)

57,000 passengers/hr (full build)

Data updated 2026-09-29 · Progress estimates based on satellite imagery, official announcements, and public filings. Methodology →

Announced

1 project · groundbreaking not started

xAI × HUMAIN (Saudi)

Saudi Arabia (site not yet disclosed)

StatusAnnounced

TBD (500 MW power footprint)

500 MW+ · first cluster ~18,000 GB300

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