IDRA Deliveries, Road Discussion & Milestone S Ext last beam! 22 May 2024 Giga Texas Update(07:35AM)
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- Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car!
A very busy day with big milestones & deliveries at Giga Texas today! We start with an in-depth intro discussion on road construction & follow up with a tour of all the road construction sites around Giga Texas. We then get to see two huge IDRA deliveries to the DIE shop, one of which I spotted hiding under the north bridge and then see it again driving to the DIE Shop, while another large delivery was being made! This is an important development for on-site casting Die design, testing, maintenance & … future products!
Another milestone moment was captured on the south extension, where the final signed beam was installed on the east side, just where we expected this to happen. I'm not sure if the tree topping ceremony already took place or was about to start, as I did not see the tree on the beam.
Timestamps:
Giga Texas Road Projects discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 5:43
Drone flight footage & infographics: 5:48 to 30:55
In the video introduction, we discuss several road projects at Giga Texas, spanning most of the east and north sides of the entire site! The first project is the new Harold Green Road being constructed by the City of Austin on the far north of the site, connecting SH-130 (the main highway down the middle of Giga Texas’ property) and the Austin Colony housing area on the east. This will also provide a north access road for Giga Texas in the future and help serve the battery cathode complex of structures and possibly future construction projects in this area.
The second road we discuss is the Tesla Road (formerly the original Harold Green Road) extension to the east, giving better access to the battery cathode complex of structures and eventually, a connection for the River Road extension that will connect along the Colorado River to the south of Giga Texas. This project also calls for a looped road portion north of the existing Tesla Road and in the area where the old temporary electrical switchyard once stood before the new permanent electrical switchyard was finished.
The third road work underway is the extension to the south of Robotic Avenue, which currently runs along the eastern border of the east parking lot and near the east Warehouse on Wheels (WOW) Yard. Part of this extension has already been constructed, with the farthest-most south extension and intersection with River Road yet to be completed. This project allows access to the new multi-level parking garage and gives a north route from this garage for employees parking in the new structure.
The final road work we discuss is the River Road extension from the existing road just south of the newly extended main building (and near the Cyberpond) to the east and connecting to the new Robotic Avenue extension. Eventually, this road will continue along the Colorado River and to the north, connecting with the new Tesla Road extension project.
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Drone flight over Giga Texas is with permission of Tesla and CEO Elon Musk
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Based on belt cassette use, the TBM has advanced around 213m since the start. Putting the cutterhead adjacent to, on the left of, the curved black pipes at 25:17. Just my guestimate of course. Although I'm confident enough that wouldn't park my car there!
25:17. Just noticed there's a single picket in that view. More closely located to the speculated tunnel alignment than the central picket in the line of 3.
Given the lack of any restricted access to the area above the tunnel alignment, would that indicate the tunnel is still quite deep? Well below the pair of stormwater drains. Closer drain under that row of cars, another about where the blue knuckle-boom lift is located.
25:13, The survey instrument is most likely monitoring for any settlement as a result of the tunnelling. From that location it cannot tell anything in relation to the tunnel alignment or position of the TBM.
Thanks David!
Cheers mate. Die shop will also create, modify and/or replace the tools and dies for the stamping presses.
Thanks Joe
3:20. Tesla Road drawings. Bottom left. New exit road from the parking lot is drawn as passing over Tesla Road. Badly drawn perhaps. No indication of ramps or embankments expected for a bridge. Drawings are marked ‘Prelimary, not for bidding or construction, subject to change’.
9:03. Far north east. Force Main pipeline works. Unrelated to the proposed road, other than following the property boundary.
See Joe’s 22 September 2022 video for permit information. Brad’s 23 April video at 16.52 shows the same works further north on Gilbert Road.
11:20. Cathode, west. Plant platform. Delivery of new fabricated pipes.
Die Shop. Delivery. AMC-21 on the crate. Large enough to be one of the platens that the dies are attached to.
14:56.Tesla Road. Second IDRA delivery. Crate marked AMC-10.
24:11. Westside, Tunnel Project. Conveyor cassette. Bottom beam has raised another foot since yesterday. David Salisbury estimated yesterday that the tunnel was as far east as the bottom of the highway berm.
25:49. Southend, Central Structure. Red Bridge Crane beam installed on the middle level.
27:47. Southend, Cooling Platform site. Bottom right. Black squares would be (quick search), ‘cooling tower fills’. The media that the hot water filters down through on its cooling journey. Some already installed in the structure.
28:41. Southend. Cooling tower. Top deck. Round openings formed up for much larger fan units to be installed.
29:28. Southend, roof. Central structure. Top. Blue trailers are where the bituminous adhesive is warmed up.
Centre. System seems to be a single layer of a trafficable insulation board, joints are taped and sealed with the adhesive, adhesive spread over the entire surface, rolls of a white fibrous matting rolled out into the adhesive, adhesive spread over the matting, bituminous felt roofing material rolled out.
I was wondering whether that loop was a 'fast exit' from the parking lot feeding directly onto Tesla Road ... should speed the employees on their way home.
Hi Dessie... Have you been able to successfully download the site plan from the link Joe posted in the video description? I tried the link which goes to an Austin website. But can't find the site plan over there. Thanks.
@@davidharris7249 Looks that way. There would need to be traffic lights if there isn't a bridge, or a tunnel.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Joe has a link to the complete set on his Patreon page. The Austin City link only takes you to an index page. I haven't tried looking any further.
The full set of drawings don't give much away. The ones Joe shows in the intro have the most relevant information.
@@DessieDoolan Thanks. Unfortunately I don't have access to Joe's page. Not that I'm cheap, but I'm retired and on a limited income. Guess I will try again to figure out to use that index page to find the plans. Even if the plans don't have much information, its better than what I have now. 🙂 Wish he would have just put a direct link.
Very few tunnel segment liners left!
IRONworkers erect the steel beams. STEELworkers work in the foundries to make the steel. Its a longstanding tradition. I see the flags and tree have been removed.
Awfully quick removal? The last one seemed to stay for a few days and all the drone crew got to see it.
Ok ... but I also have had several others just as excited as you tell me not to call them iron workers, but say steel workers. In the end, I think we understand who I am referring to.
Fantastic progress. Joe, as always, great video and narration. Thank you!
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I want to see the Boring tunnel pop through!!!
Me too!
Thank you Joe for this update.
You’re welcome Philip!
I hope we can see the boring machine come out on the other side
In July
Hmmm, I think it would be a bit boring 😂
Joe - I managed tunnel construction projects. The stakes and surveyors for the tunnel going under the highway indicate where the TBM drill head is located. The surveyors are checking for any settlement related to the tunneling activity. This is likely a requirement from the State Highway Department.
The marked decline in Model Y production suggests that they may be gearing up for an upgrade. Perhaps the long awaited “Juniper”??
We can only hope. Tesla "osborned" itself somewhat with the M3 refresh that implied a similar refresh of MY. Coordinating refreshes is likely challenging but with higher interest rates some people can and will be incentivised to wait and this may be part of the EV sales dip this year.
Strangely, the new Harold Green Road only seems to access the northbound lane of SH-130
Maybe they can build a frontage road to connect to the interchange at tesla road.
There are actually only a few more cybertruck than model y in the outbound lot. I think because of the size and unique shape of the cybertruck it appears they are more dominant that they are.
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Dear Joe. The red Tesla crane inside at the first floor of the new building, doesnt seem to have a place in an office environment. More likely to be production of some sort. Maybe its part of the platform 3, Elon has been talking so proudly about, and that is supposed to prove that production of the compelling M2 is imminent? Millions of europeans have been waiting for years, for the cheaper Redwood model, as their chance to enter the EV market. Per in Denmark😎🇩🇰
I would guess that unique roofing material over the supercomputer datacenter would have significant RFI shielding capabilities.
RFI is usually controlled at the device level. Each rack component is tested for emissions as well as RFI affecting stuff within a chassis. However, I have heard of rooms that were faraday cages to prevent electronic eavesdropping.
Thanks Joe!
Data center:
Power:
Rooftop cable trays:
@ 18:11 (Left) Hard to see but there is a crew working near the parapet wall on the roof.
@ 18:23 Cable tray installation hasn't reached this far north yet.
@ 29:15 Bottom right) ( Stack of cable trays on the stamping roof. Cable tray installation is just off-screen to the right.
Duct-banks:
@ 19:06 Vault covers placed on the vaults. Unfortunate because we weren't able to get a conduit count (by looking into the vault) on the duct-bank furthest west.
@ 19:18 Here is the conduit issue.... 12 conduits entering the this vault. It appears that only 8 conduits are exiting the vault.
@ 19:33 Trenching across the parking lot.
@ 19:44 Pre-assembled duct-banks sections installed across Tesla road over the weekend.
Fiber optics:
@ 20:11 (Bottom right) HDD rig drilling south.
@ 20:21 (Towards the bottom) Small pull boxes at the top and bottom of the berm are for the existing fiber to the building.
To the right... Spool of orange conduit.
@ 20:54 (Bottom) At the top of the berm... Small excavation and another pull box.
Cooling:
27:48 Below the concrete deck... Steel beams placed between the concrete columns.
28:39 Round openings in the top for the large fan units to be installed. Speculating that this will be just a cooling tower. Chillers will likely be placed in the main south extension.
White vertical pipes connected to the black horizontal pipes.
South expansion:
@ 26:06 A view inside the building. Further in, a red bridge crane can be seen.
Thanks David!
@@JoeTegtmeyer You're welcome!
I think the tunnel may eventually extend to the cooling structure, and possibly beyond, for both datacenter water/coolant piping installation and maintenance as well as outbound finished vehicle transport.
They don't have the lining segments to get that far.
Yet another quality production from Joe. Super informative.
Thanks Joe!
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Great video as always.
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Outstanding video Joe. Thanks!
Thank you George 🤗
I live in that community - the Harold Green road extension is a disaster. It cuts directly into our park and gives us a NORTHBOUND egress when we were previously getting a SOUTHBOUND 130 egress. Really disappointed.
Your house must be now 10x its original value, and would be a dream for any Tesla workaholic employee !!!
@@nihongobenkyoshimasu3190 some value sure, but I’m not selling currently. This is my house house, not investment house. Plus the layoffs have nuked my neighbors who gave Tesla a shot as an employer and then got axed. Great cars (we have 2), awful company and CEO
It makes no sense for Tesla either, who is pushing for it?
Endless construction and reconstruction.
Things change. Designs evolve. If we had to wait for the entire plant to be built first, we would still be waiting for the first vehicle.
I'm surprised that we still don't know where the tunnel will breach.
Another gold mine of information - thanks Joe.
Thanks!
Thank you very much! 🤗
Wonderful. Thank you.
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Joe that loop on Tesla road looks like it may be an overpass or underpass to Tesla road.
My guess would be to ease congestion when leaving the parking lot at high traffic times.
I’ll keep an eye out on this area and together we will find out what they end up doing as sometimes things change from what the permits show
@@JoeTegtmeyer Thanks Joe I'll be sure to keep watching your updates lol
Do we think model Y and cyber trucks will both use the tunnel. Will they eventally drill a second tunnel?
Don't super computers like it cold? Maybe it's an extra thick layer for a giant freezer.
Roof material is actually thinner than seen elsewhere on the site. The single sheet looks around the 1" 25mm thickness, bituminous felt, adhesive, reinforcement fabric etc might add another 3/8" 10mm.
I would guess the real insulation will be in the roof space below, above a clean room ceiling.
Elsewhere in the factory there is no ceiling other than the underside of the roof decking, so insulation is outside.
Maybe way less insulation so the computer gear can more easily directly radiate heat.
@@paulstubbs7678 I just did a search for 'data center building design'. Loads of stuff out there.
This jumped out at me;
"The second cooling issue for data centers is efficient use and handling of cooled and heated air. For an ordinary human space, introducing cooled air from one vent and exhausting warmed air from another causes mixing and temperature averaging that yields adequate human comfort. But this common home and office approach doesn't work well in data centers, where racks of equipment create extreme heat in concentrated spaces. Racks of extremely hot gear demand careful application of cooled air, and then deliberate containment and removal of heated exhaust. Data center designers must avoid mixing the hot and cold air that keeps human air- conditioned spaces so comfortable."
Might be a reasonably well insulated space where variations in temperature are easier to control
I don't otherwise know the first thing about data centers. I did install 'computer floors' years ago, and I can type, but that's it for me and anything broadly IT related.
@@DessieDoolan It looks thicker to me. But insulating ability is also a function of the material selected. Not just thickness. The high cooling capacity tower being built RIGHT NEXT TO IT is a strong indicator, in my view, that the room will be kept very cold.
@@paulstubbs7678 Heat transfer doesn't work like that.
@ 19:06 Looks like there is no rebar pieces drilled into the existing slab. Patched concrete area around the vaults looks thin in some places compared to the thickness of the existing slab.
Mine should be in your video today somewhere around there lol
I hope it is!
Great to see that the new construction is topped out! Looking forward to hearing more details on the super cooled computer system. How many tons of cooling will the computer be connected to! What temperature the cooling system will run at. 55F? My guess.
I have worked in a small server room, about 20 X 30 feet for a movie company, and they had 3 each 10 ton capacity air conditioners for that one room. All of the ceiling was covered with either a return air grill or a supply air grill! It was not set up with a traditional air conditioner found in computer rooms, but 3 each package air conditioners on the roof. The building was owned by Pacific Theaters in Beverly Hills CA on Roberson St.
It seems like the water tower system will be over 4,000 tons of cooling capacity. I wonder how much of that chilled water will be dedicated to the computer room, and how much might be used to cool the production areas. My guess is the employees are demanding a cooler working enviroment to keep up the production of cars at the rate of one new car per minute! If the plant is really hot, then they might slow down.
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I like your videos and appreciate you providing them for us. The plans I could not read even at 1080p (so my computer says) so I must download the file if I want to analyze it? I am also confused why the roads around the factory are not being maintained with striping and better traffic control devices. I know that is not your problem but I find it odd that even sidewalk crossings are not repainted. I realize the elevation of the drone can give a false impression. With the river surrounding the factory is there a reason for so many holding ponds? I suppose they are for flood water and drainage overall and I understand holding back the runoff but just wondering and is there a plan to make the river area a place for picnic or camping? Thanks again Joe.
This seems to indicate that Tesla may start gen 2 production in Texas in a bigger way before Mexico. It make sense because of the long process to install infrastructure in Mexico. There could be added production facilities added in Texas for Gen2.
I clicked on the link but can't find the site plan on the website. Does open up an Austin site, but nothing useful. Unless I'm doing something wrong?
Looks to me as though there is only minimal actual machinery in the plant to produce vehicles.. at the rate they are going could take two more full years to finish the build out
are you talking the new section, or entire building? They are building over 5k vehicles per week in the existing part, even with the model Y slowdown, since cybertruck is ramping up.
The 25k model or robotaxi will likely be built in the existing portion of the building, since there is still unused space in there, and they already said would use existing lines that actually have more capacity than needed.
@@tonyvelasco5732 think w are on the same page frame of mind
Glad to see the progress. Will be happy to see less dirt this year. I loved dirt in the beginning, but it is time to start covering dirt and finishing up. Grass please.
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Consider this pure speculation but the different material on the roof over the data center area might be related to cosmic ray absorption. With large computer and memory arrays, rare cosmic ray interactions (memory corruption among other things) is a real problem. While putting a center under ground or under several feet of concrete is one way to add protection, there are materials, used in spacecraft, that are thinner and lighter that are used to reduce cosmic ray effects. I did some internet searching but didn't find much related to data center protection beyond the use of error correcting memory and other mitigations in the hardware. Perhaps there are other folks here with more specific knowledge in this area.
What is the possibility that eventually a tunnel will be dug from the factory to the taylor freightyard show that the vehicles can leave the facility and drive themselves all the way to the train.
I think that would be prohibitively expensive. Also, eventually unsupervised self driving would allow on-road self-transport, that is, if customers don’t mind that their vehicles be delivered with miles already on the odometers.
Man i bet the folks living close to where the new HG road intersects with the housing area are not very happy. looks pretty quiet. (for now)
Yes. Road traffic in a backyard that just had birds and coyotes. It was a good thing while it lasted.. a lot of people saying F tesla.
They should be upset with the local governments for the lack of building codes & regulations. But Texans are known for their distain of regulations. So this is what you get.
@@ReinReads Well they were upset over the renaming of the original road and wanted the local govt rectify it. this is what they did....Be careful what you wish for..........
@@kkarllwt Who's asking for it? I doubt it's Tesla as it makes no sense for them. It effs up their property by splitting it.
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Great update. So will these roads be built by Tesla or the coun,t state or city or what? TY FOR WHAT YOU DO.
Hey Joe, do you think that Tesla vehicles will ever self deliver? That would definitely be absolute FSD.
Certainly from one part of the factory to another. Beyond that, I’m not sure how it would actually work but with Tesla, it’s possible.
What is the point of the loop road through the old temporary electrical switch yard?
Yep, unless it is a bridge or tunnel. Drawing shows it looping over Tesla road, but no indication of a bridge approach embankment. Drawings are marked 'Preliminary, not for bidding or construction, subject to change'.
How is Prufrock 3 doing compared to the speed of a snail so far?
Hey Joe I was wondering if you have the picture of the Ironworkers with the last beam before it got sent up. And if you do is there anyway you could send it to me
Elon should buy tubular slides and install them in front of the multi-level parking lot.
And they should use more roundabouts on the site.
Tesla's competition is coming All over them self 😂
Not really.
Who was Harold Green?
Green was well-known throughout the state as rancher and home builder. He promoted junior tennis in Austin through an endowment fund established in the mid-1970s and helped create the Capitol Area Tennis Association in 1974. ??
The Statesman reported that the road has been called Harold Green Road since 1976. It was reportedly named after a local dairy farmer, rancher.
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Who lives in the housing community? Tesla employees or just regular people?
who is/was harold green?
Harold Green Road was a local dairy farmer, rancher, homebuilder and tennis enthusiast who died in 1992. The now Tesla Road was originally dedicated as Harold Green Road since 1976.
Where are the model Y’s. Output seems fairly low cf Shanghai.
Almost the same number of Y's and Cybertrucks, just the cybertrucks stand out more. However, they did cut production here. You need to remember there are 2 factories in the US making model Y, and with a slowed economy due to high interest rates and inflation, most North Americans have very little disposable cash these days, so sales in North America are sluggish, with Telsa doing the best of all the carmakers, but everyone is hurting, just a little less for Tesla.
That highway looks like a freeway.
130 is a toll road envisioned to alleviate the horrid traffic on IH 35. IH 35 is the main NAFTA conduit.
80MPH speed limit toll road. For a number of years it had relatively light traffic, but had continued to grow as development is drawn to road capacity like mosquitos to bare cheeks.
85mph toll highway.
Last time I drove, there were many who were doing around 100mph.
Car gets noisy inside and fuel use is high.
What's happened to the crash test facility roof - south end? (13:58) It looks damaged.
Curtain flipped up onto the roof.
Portion of the black curtain flipped up over the edge of the roof
Why do they have to crash test so many vehicles?
Same reason every car maker does crash testing. It’s a common practice.
@@JoeTegtmeyer I could understand if there were many different models to be tested but at giga Texas there is only the model Y and the cybertruck.
@@alan-bk1vb if you look closely, they are also testing Model Xs and an occasional Model S not to mention future models
Each vehicle has to be crash tested in various ways- front, side, rear, and at various speeds.
You don't get to the absolute top of the safety ratings without continuous improvement. Tesla takes it seriously.
Unbelievably dumb to cut your property in half, all for it to connect to a small housing development.
Then you shouldn't have done that ... why did you?
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That housing development voted on a bond long before Tesla road existed to extend that new exit southbound. Tesla is now sending that road northward and taking advantage of the community, likely as Tesla does not want to fund a bridge across the Colorado and to keep traffic away from their compound.