We might all remember the famous Elon Musk tweet on May 9, 2020, where he announced a
move of Tesla and SpaceX to Texas. Terafactory was confirmed in December 2020 when he announced
the status of the movement at an event. The move was said to have been necessitated by
the California state's coronavirus protocols that prevented Tesla from opening its workshops
after small businesses were allowed to operate. In May, the county shut down his Fremont factory
for not adhering to COVID-19 protocols. He later opened it without permission which led
to several workers testing positive for the virus. This factory shut down seems to have
been the final straw, as was described in the tweet. His lawsuit against Alameda County
and its Interim Health Officer is still ongoing. As Elon Musk himself told, Wall Street Journal's
editor-in-chief, Matt Murray, however, is the grown complacency of success in California.
He expressed that "If a team has been winning for too long, they do tend to get a little
complacent, a little entitled and then they don't win anymore. Unfortunately, California
has been winning for too long. And I think they're taking them (business people) for
granted a little bit.”
Terafactory is established just outside of Austin, where income taxes do not apply to
individual billionaires. He is not the only one who has made this move; other tech giants
have stepped out of the Silicon Valley and into the still red Texas state. The computer
hardware company Hewlett Packard (hp) Enterprise who made Silicon Valley what it is today with
notable strides in the tech industry, has moved to Texas. HP decided first and then
Oracle Corporation, a big name in software management and development, also move to Austin.
Then there is the Dropbox CEO, Drew Houston, who has sold his house and moved entirely
to Texas. They will be joining DELL and several other prominent tech companies and ventures
already set up in the Bay Area. There was a report that last year alone, over 39 tech
companies and ventures either moved their headquarters to Texas or fully relocated from
all parts of the world. Facebook and its other businesses have many of their employees situated
in the southern state. The name is no longer Texas Terafactory as
it has been reconsidered as Giga Texas. However, fans of Tesla will recall Giga Texas as Elon
Musk has used for his factories for a while now. In 2017, Elon Musk declared that he has
plans of setting up 10 to 20 of the said Giga factories across the world. Giga Shanghai
has been in existence since 2019, and it is rounding up its final stage of building the
factory. The Giga Texas factory’s first phase was
billed to be fully completed in a year this May. The company has received official videos,
but several Youtubers and droves of Tesla fans have continued to fly their drones across
the factory all year round. These videos show that many buildings have taken full shape,
and more are coming up. The initial conversation of a possible 5,000 job openings has doubled
to 10,000 through 2022 and, reports indicate that college degrees are not a requirement.
The no degree requirement means that college students and dropouts, high school students
and, people with other forms of experience are encouraged to apply. The company is also
collaborating with several high schools, colleges and, trade schools to utilize their talent.
In 2018, a study showed that the city of Austin was the number one city that most tech profiles
on LinkedIn were migrating to. The news is good for them and a solid move to have more
people relocate to this upcoming Silicon Valley, with a more affordable standard of living
and lesser taxes on business owners and innovators. The president of Tesla Automotive, Jerome
Guillen, announced new engineering and manufacturing positions on his LinkedIn profile recently.
He said a fantastic team already on the ground, but they were looking for excellent manufacturing
engineering talents in Austin. Cybertruck and Model Y, Model 3 and, Tesla
Semi and, other undisclosed vehicles and battery cells will be the main focus of Giga Texas.
These are forecasted to begin as soon as the factory is fully set up in Phase 1. This timeline
is one of the areas that Tesla is known for: a record-breaking building capacity and timeline.
The Giga Texas is currently 30% complete. On completion, it is expected to be the most
prominent building globally on a 2,000-acre piece of land and entirely powered by renewable
energy sources. In addition production factory is billed to become an ecological paradise
and open to the general public. There is a vast tech community that has taken
an interest in comparing Giga Texas to Giga Shanghai. Tesla is known for having the fastest
factory building process in the world. The Tesla factory in China was started in January
2019 by Musk. It has already finished its third phase with images indicating that new
buildings were initially not marked out on the planned factory spring up. The current
capacity of the factory is between 1,000 to 2,000 cars per week. This Shanghai factory
is supposed to be rivaled by Giga Texas when completed as the new headquarters of Tesla.
Critics have said that the Austin facility may not be able to compete with the production
capacity of Shanghai talents, but that is up for debate and further observation.
Just this week, Tesla acquired a new piece of land closer to the Colorado River, and
although no official reports have been made, the state of Austin can confirm that the land
was bought by Tesla in the name of Giga, Texas. The idea of Tesla Giga Texas being the giant
factory in the world also comes with the concept of an ecological paradise. The initial plan
may be why Musk acquired the new parcel of land much closer to the river to facilitate
the public recreational part of the project. The project is expected to have a boardwalk
over the Colorado River where there will be hiking and biking trails for visitors. Musk
described it in 2020 as a paradise with trees, butterflies, fishes in the stream, and a public
spectacle. This concept is all well within the capacity of this site and its landscaping.
The YouTube videos have also confirmed how these will take shape.
The focal point of growing Musk's utopia: the Fremont factory, the company's old headquarters
situated on a 370-acre piece of land, was the primary place where car components were
made for the Tesla Company. This factory also housed 10,000 workers of the company. The
average working wage of a tesla employee stands between US$17/hour to US$39/hour. In 2020,
it was reported that there were about 500,000 applications for a total of 2,500 job openings.
This statistic made the probability of a person securing a job with Tesla in a year as low
as 0.5%. But, of course, anyone will consider this a utopia in a country like the United
States. Let us now look at how the Giga Texas factory
shall contribute as a focal point of realizing this already growing utopia. With Austin slowly
chiming up as a new hub for tech talents, it is a vital alternative to the high cost
of living and doing business in the Silicon Valley area of California. It is also the
billionaire's dream county as income taxes for the rich are non-existent. As a new yet
old tech hub, Texas presents experienced talents and new and inexperienced talent development
opportunities. It is also setting up and benefit from the best that the state has to offer
before new laws are introduced to regulate the tech industry.
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