Musk’s SpaceX eyes massive 11M SF “Gigasat” factory in Bastrop County

SpaceX will be expanding the solar production facility on FM 1209 to 11 million square feet, according to the Austin Business Journal.

Satellite manufacturing campus would eclipse Tesla’s nearby Gigafactory, part of Musk’s gambit to put AI-powered data centers in orbit by the end of 2027

The “Gigasat” will be one million square feet bigger than the Tesla “Gigafactory” just down the road from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

The Gigasat will be utilized for a project with common Muskian ambition: sending data centers to space. The goal is to have data centers in orbit by the end of 2027, the outlet reported. Each satellite produced is expected to handle 150 kilowatts of computing power, and SpaceX’s goal is to launch 6,500 satellites by the end of 2027.

According to Musk, the additions to the Gigasat will be a solar ingots and wafers production facility (the building blocks of solar panels), next to the solar cell factory. The AI satellite factory will be built along FM 1209. Musk gave a vague timeline, saying that the buildings will be operating “at some reasonable volume” by the end of 2027.