gigafactory

plural gigafactories

1. slangA very large manufacturing facility.

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   The new AI “gigafactories” would be much larger, targeting what the commission called “moonshots”: significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics and scientific discovery. […] While the best-performing AI factories have supercomputers equipped with up to 25,000 advanced AI processors, a gigafactory would exceed 100,000 AI processors, the strategy document said. […] EU officials envisage three to five AI gigafactories in the EU at a cost of around €3-5bn each, compared with €600m for the biggest AI factory.

   2025 April 9, Jennifer Rankin, “EU to build AI gigafactories in €20bn push to catch up with US and China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   1. slangA factory producing electric batteries at a large scale.

      Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in northern Nevada.

      2015, Myles Udland, “Tesla's new gigafactory will highlight the 2 biggest labor trends in America”, in Business Insider

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      “The main constraint on our production is really the cells,” Musk explained. “We are not quite ready to make a big announcement on the cell and battery giga factory, but we are exploring a lot of these options right now.”

      2013, Dana Hull, “Tesla Motors may make its own batteries”, in San Jose Mercury News

      Tesla Motors has chosen Nevada for its proposed $5-billion gigafactory battery plant, which it says will drive down the cost of its cars.

      2014, Charles Fleming, “Tesla Motors picks Nevada for planned $5-billion battery factory site”, in Los Angeles Times

      Koch thinks the gigafactory should be hiring more people from the community, whether there are incentives or not. But would the Nevadans compromise a bit on wages in order to at least have a job?

      2016, Lydia DePillis, “At Tesla’s gigafactory, a larger battle over worker pay”, in Washington Post

      The factory marks the arrival of battery-making gigafactories in Europe that will challenge Tesla, which is building at a plant in Nevada, and opens the way for a quicker shift toward green power for both cars and utilities.

      2017, Anna Hirtenstein, “Daimler's battery gigafactory begins Europe challenge to Tesla”, in Bloomberg