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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Tesla
- Address and locality
- Austin · Travis County · Texas
- Official metro area
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001447
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
- Power source
- Mixed
- On-site generation
- 30 MW (source-reported)
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
Provider notes
Energy. Grid power from Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (Giga Texas sits in unincorporated Travis County within Bluebonnet's — not Austin Energy's — service territory) is the primary supply, but Tesla has built genuine on-site generation and storage that make this a defining mixed story.
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What the source record says
Dedicated, purpose-built AI training data center on the north side of Tesla's Giga Texas campus (unincorporated Travis County), separate from and adjacent to the original Cortex cluster. Trains neural networks for Full Self-Driving and the Optimus robot program; uses Nvidia GPUs. First ~250 MW targeted online with a full ~500 MW buildout targeted mid-2026; construction began early 2025. Coordinate is the Giga Texas campus point; Cortex 2.0 is a specific building on that campus.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Cortex 2.0: Tesla's new supercomputer at Giga Texas · Interesting Engineering
- A Look at Tesla's New AI Training Center at Giga Texas · Not a Tesla App
- Tesla FSD Cortex AI supercluster running at full capacity, confirms Musk · Tesla Oracle
- Gigafactory Texas — location (unincorporated Travis County, Austin) · Wikipedia
- Tesla Adds Megapacks for Its Next-Generation Supercomputer (Cortex 2)
- Tesla's Giga Texas to Have World's Largest Rooftop Solar Installation (30MW)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID tesla-cortex-2-giga-texas-austin-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001447
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Austin, TX · Travis (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Tesla
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 30 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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