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I wondered the same thing. There's a Wikipedia page about it that is less fluffy, but it still isn't clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1 https://
by planteen 10y ago
I wondered the same thing. There's a Wikipedia page about it that is less fluffy, but it still isn't clear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1
"Tesla had said that the factory will be up to 10 million square feet [1 million square meters] in one or two stories"
And to be a nitpicker - calling it a gigafactory is kind of an insult to SI prefixes. Gigafactory implies 10^9 factories... So if 1 Testla gigafactory is 10^7 sq. ft, that means to Tesla, a typical factory is 0.01 sq. ft (1.44 sq. inches)? Hmmmmm... gotta love marketing.
- m00x 10y agoMegaman is also not a million men. > Giga is derived from the greek word meaning "giant" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-
- nickik 10y agoYea, Mini or Micro USB, Mini and Micro sim cards. If I buy a Megapack in the Supermarket I don't expect a literal Megapack either. They are just cool words :)
- benjaminjackman 10y agoI had always thought that giga was primarily a reference to the annual capacity of batteries it was producing, not its size. i.e. `Its projected capacity for 2018 is 50 GWh/yr of battery packs` per the wikipedia page you linked. Perhaps there is a bit of wordplay though in its size also being gigantic.
- DesiLurker 10y agoi think op knows.
- planteen 10y agoBased on my quantity of down votes, I don't think many people got it. That will teach me to joke about Tesla on HN! Or maybe it just wasn't funny.
- teach 10y agoTongue-in-cheek writing is really hard to distinguish in plaintext when you play it so straight. And especially when you transitioned into it so abruptly from a legitimate, honest answer. If your comment had contained only the facetious part more people might have picked up on it. But probably not even then since humor is often downvoted on HN so people don't expect it like they do on other sites.
- skinnymuch 10y agoIt was funny but yeah I didn't think you were joking when I first read it. Unfortunate that you played it so straight :p.
- mikeash 10y agoThere really are people who would get legitimately annoyed that Tesla is abusing the "giga" prefix when they're not actually building a billion factories. Hard to tell when it's one of those or when it's actually a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law