Giga Texas has 150-acres framed and is 60% finished

I hoped to have better news this week, but once again the rains came in and made an absolute mess of things. That's not entirely a bad thing, since so much of the site is now indoors, and the number of cars in the parking lot remains fairly steady either way. This suggests that workers who might be up on the roof attaching steel are instead inside putting up walls. The progress continues.

So let's not dilly-dally, here's the weekly graph showing the site's progress by category.

The top line is "site prep" which remains pegged at 95% because I think that's what it's into. This will only climb once the foundations reach 95% which could realistically happen within the next month.

The orange line is foundations, and despite leveling off a bit, we actually got to see some new footings going in along the central corridor and also at the SW corner along the perimeter grade beam. There's a lot of rain forecast for the coming week, so we may not see much movement on this figure, but we'll see how the week goes.

Next on the graph is the frame work, which continues a steady climb. We've seen the final completion of the NW battery cell area, and some advancement in the SW prairie. This number may also stagnate this week, as cranes generally don't operate when thunderstorms are within 10 miles due to the risk of lightning strikes.

The roof has similarly advanced quite a bit this week, but is also likely to stall until the weather allows adequate safety.

The bottom one there is the interior completion, and this is really the hot topic for the week, and likely the coming week as well. It's accelerated, as predicted, since it counts 1/17th of every square on the grid going back to the beginning of it, which was fewer than 17 weeks ago. We'll see the first-counted interior squares fully amortized on June 14th, but until at least that point, this number is sure to continue accelerating each week.

I'll spare you the whole Patreon and pretty-please subscribe business until the end, but it is important. So let's get to the weekly grid. Here's the site as it looks today.

I've made some adjustments to where the firewalls are located, based on clearer information. I started the tracker when there was almost nothing to see, which made counting difficult, so I'm always making revisions to keep it as accurate as possible.

The biggest change from last week to this week, at least visually from the grid, is the amount of interior squares underway. Over 1/4 of the entire footprint of the factory's emerald is now inside space. Some of it is well underway, like in the stamping and casting cathedrals, and some of it is barely underway, like along the western face. Other areas aren't even counted yet, like the Body In White building, which has had substantial work for months now, but no complete walls, which prevents me from counting it. It should all average out in the end.

So let's take a look at the timeline as of today. Here it is and here you go. As of today Giga Texas is 59.5% complete and will be finished, for lack of a better word, in a total of 504 days on or about December 6th of this very year. If you're curious to know the breakdown by floor count, here you go, and if you just want to see the totals, here those are as well. The total framed area is currently 6.5Msf, which is 609Ksm, or in other words, there are 150 acres of steel or concrete framed area, including higher floors. That's what floor space is, after all.

Here's a word of caution on the completion date. Since interior space takes 4-months from walls to completion, in order for the site to reach 100% by December 6th, every last wall would have to be in place by mid August, which is looking pretty darn improbable.

What's more likely is that we'll see the numbers really start to tick up over the next month or two, then slow down once all the elements apart from walls are complete. If the last wall goes up October 1st, the 100 mark won't hit until the end of January, even if the factory has already been producing cars. This is a very real possibility.

And now the moment you've all been waiting for, the new trackers for the Project Bobcat and Possibly-Starlink buildings... I don't have them. I started working on them this week, but once the rains hit, it all fell apart and there's nothing meaningful to show that you can't already fully deduce just by looking at them.

We have a pretty good idea how big the building to the West of the toll road will be, but there's nothing really to track. It's just gravel. And on the east side of the site, we don't even have a guess what the size or footprint is going to be.

I hope to start actually tracking these next week, but we're going to need to see some progress, and that appears to rely pretty heavily on the weather cooperating, which is always a massive question mark.

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