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Is gigafactory just like a word we have to live with existing now?
It’s basically the gigachad of the factory world.
"annual capacity of 1 GWh"
It’s going to be confusing when we get to terafactories and then petafactories. One pumping out Halloween joy and the other filled with llamas and stuff.
https://youtu.be/O818btW2PYY
He names things like I named my 90s teenage AIM accounts.
Who? Norway?
Elon. Tesla came up with the name of these things.
But it's called a gigafactory because it produces 1 GWh.
Also it's 1000x bigger than a mega factory. We know this because if it was 1024x bigger, it would be a gibifactory.
Hmm, so a regular factory is 1/10^9^ the size of a gigafactory? The one in Texas is 10M ft^2, so a regular factory would be 0.01 ft^2^, 1.44 in^2^, or 9.29cm^2^. Seems legit.