Elon Musk’s SpaceX has initiated work on a massive expansion of its facilities in Bastrop, Texas, located in the Austin metro area. The expansion includes up to 11 million square feet of new solar production factory and operational space.
Known as “Gigasat,” the campus will include the manufacturing of products to support orbital data centers, Starlink satellite production and semiconductor research.
In Texas, primarily Southeast and East Texas, Musk has built other mega-campuses, such as Tesla’s 10-million-square-foot vehicle and robot plant in Austin. Others include:
- Tesla Lithium Refinery – Robstown, Texas
- Giga Texas – Austin, Texas
- SpaceX Launch Facility (rocket manufacturing, tracking stations) – Brownsville, Texas
- SpaceX Engine Testing – McGregor, Texas
- Terafab Semiconductor Mega-Campus (proposed) – Grimes County, Texas
- Big Guy Storage (125-megawatt, utility-grade battery storage plant) – Royce City, Texas
- Project Crystal Sun (3,000-acre solar cell plant) – Fort Bend County, Texas
- Tesla’s Global Headquarters – Austin, Texas
- Snailbrook & The Boring Company – Bastrop County, Texas
