Every design change on the chassis probably requires a new crash test, or series of tests. Having this capability here gives very fast turnaround on new design iterations...

Across the water retention filtration pond by the crash test facility, if you remember the over flow pipes that were installed they extended the pipes out a long way. I believe that the plan is to add a road along that side of the pond that that extends out to connect to the new road that is planned by the lone tree.

🙋‍♂️THANKS JOE FOR THE UPDATES 🤗💚💚💚

@JoeTegtmeyer

23 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

Every inch that has a building or concrete is not even half of the campus that they own. There is so much more to be built out. Crazy!!

@michelangelobuonarroti916

23 күн бұрын

The buildout will still be happening ten years from now.

@earthwizz

22 күн бұрын

I thought it was odd having the concrete plant so far away. Turns out it's in the middle of the site. Definitely more to be built.

Thanks Joe 2:28. Casting, east. In Brad’s video yesterday a forklift with a bin of casting biscuits was seen turning into Casting. New furnaces may be accepting the scrap now. Up until now all casting scrap was sent off site. Tesla claim of use of ’Non Telsa components including wheels’ doesn’t seem to sit with the highly specific alloy used in the gigacastings. I think they mean the aluminum can be sourced from recycled components, not that aluminum wheels can be tossed into the furnace. 5:06. Southend, east. Level 1. Concrete placement on the elevated floor behind the scaffold stair. Glimpse at 8:15. 7:22. BIW, roof. Scaffold platform. 2 spools/reels/drums of cable under blue tarpaulins. Spools are on rollers, ready to start paying-out the cable from the platform. 7:41. Southend. Cooling tower. To the left. 8 stacks of curved material would be the air outlets. ‘Fan stack’ as shown on the Evaptech images. Top deck sheets trimmed to circular shapes for the fan stacks. 10:32. Southend. Central Structure. Level 3 bridge crane is visible. 2 bridge cranes installed. Suspended scaffold behind. Left. Under roof. Scaffold stairs up to a suspended scaffold platform. 11:03. Southend. Central Structure. Level 1. Left. Heavy steel pipe supports suspended from the underside of Level 2, would be for the big pipes. Studwall being constructed atop the east-west retaining wall. Right, machinery moving around on the finished floor. 12:31. Perimeter road. No fenced-off areas. TBM is under here somewhere. Tunnel portal in the apron now looking unlikely. 13:46. Westside, Tunnel Project. Conveyor Belt Cassette. Bottom beam has risen 3’ - 4’ feet 0.9 - 1.2mm since Wednesday. Using David Salisburys progress estimate from Wednesday, the TBM must now be under the perimeter road. No areas being cordoned off. So its safely deep enough. 16:32. Westside. Pipe Fabrication shop. Smaller pipes may be the lines to individual components in the Data Centre. 16:35. Westside, storage. Left. Stainless steel troughs. Possible part of the baghouse filtering equipment. A lot of this gear could be associated. Ductwork and steel frames at 16:14 also. 16:49. Far west. Worlds largest cow-pats. Tunnel spoil dump site. Spread out to dry. 20:55. Northend. Highway exit. ‘FBL’ marked on the road. Something to do with the Fibre Optic cable location. 21:14. Battery, north. Second Alimak (construction elevator) has been removed. Spool of flexible orange conduit. Pair of tricyclists. 22:43. Tesla Road. Black pipes on the trailer. Same seen at the Southend, west in Joe’s photos. 25:48. Cathode, Plant Platform. Chiller having the pipes connected. 26:54. Far east. Left. Conduits in the trench. 29:49. Parking Garage site. Bottom right. Huge steel pipes in red oxide paint. Compare the diameter to the size of the front-end loader pushing gravel around.

@scottgaree7667

22 күн бұрын

16:32 Yes, those look like the manifolds to run water to the rows of racks and then likely split off those to individual racks. Within the rack will be a heat exchanger. There is a separate coolant loop within the rack with manifolds to feed coolant to water blocks on the components. Separate loops allow a lower volume of more exotic coolants to be used in the racks (even different coolants as needed), while using water in the main loop to carry the heat away from the racks. Much lower volume of exotics and large volume of water with all the cost and inertness benefits. Also, if you get a leak in a rack loop on a long weekend you don't come back to find your entire coolant supply running across the floor. (Datacenter humor. 😅) You also still need a good volume of regular air handlers to provide cooled ambient air to the non-liquid cooled components. This is assuming conventional racks using coolant blocks, but another possible option is immersive cooling, where there are no fans or air movement (besides keeping the carbon units comfortable.) I like to call that "Chicken-fried compute." 🤣

@DessieDoolan

22 күн бұрын

@@scottgaree7667 16:32. Great information! I'm beginning to get a picture in my mind about what it will look like. Flow and return pipes. Would these be on the same level? Or is flow above and return below to take advantage of gravity? Intermediate pumps on these lines, or is all the pumping done back at the Cooling Tower Structure?

@scottgaree7667

22 күн бұрын

@@DessieDoolan My limited knowledge is from the compute side of things. I suspect there has to at least be some intermediate pumping to deal with variance in cooling demand of branches. Looks like the DC is higher than the chiller plant, so gravity will help on return, no matter how the branch lines are deployed. All the chilled water loops I've actually seen in DCs has been low (at or under floor), but was used for air handlers. At a minimum it makes servicing easier. I've seen R&D labs for in-rack cooling, but wouldn't expect it to be indicative of production solution arrangements. Interestingly the additional weight due to hardware density and liquids can be significantly higher than legacy DCs, so greenfield like this can be built to deal with it more easily.

@DessieDoolan

22 күн бұрын

@@scottgaree7667 Weight. Well they have designed for it. The columns in this area were beefed up. Not obvious if the beams were. Any thoughts on the bridge cranes? Are cranes a feature of Data Centers generally?

@DessieDoolan

21 күн бұрын

@@scottgaree7667 Great opening shot in Brad's 25 May video at 0:01, shows the cooling tower lower platform is half or less the height of Level 2 of the extension.

at timestamp 19 minutes there are approximately 33 cyber trucks per row meaning there are nearly 200 in this part of the outbound lot

Thank you Joe! Great content. 🙂

@JoeTegtmeyer

23 күн бұрын

You're very welcome! Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

It seems like the digging never ends

Boring tunnel;: Overall about 108 stacks of (3) liner plates remaining. Although some are painted red, which generally denotes that they are rejects that cannot be used on the permanent works (if we see these being used it almost certainly means they are nearing the end and these will eventually be removed). 108 less say 20 for rejects = 88 stacks, 44 rings, 66m. The white tube containing the extended ventilation cassette has gone from behind the Operations Control container. An empty one can be seen at 14:12 in the mid far right of the picture. this means they have extended the ventilation. The yellow vent extends from where it can be seen at the portal to the back of the TBM backup (the TBM backup has a separate booster fan along its length). The yellow vent ducts tend to be in 100m (330'), which I originally expected, but they can be 150m (500') lengths. If 150m that would agree with the estimated tunnel over all length of 245-250m (95-100m for the overall length of the TBM and back-up). it would have needed a couple of hours to change the ventilation cassette. The main power cable seems to be used up with a new coil awaiting to extend the main power. this will take the best part of a day as this needs a strong joint that can be pulled along the tunnel wall. Conveyor cassette has risen approximately 3.8m since 4th May. 3.8m x 26 = 99m. Added to the estimated tunnel length of 150m on 4th May equals 249m excavated. from google maps that would put the cutterhead at the fence line just behind the cars on the edge of the perimeter road (again, I wouldn't want my car parked there right now!). The 66m of remaining segment takes it right to the edge of the extension building. Lot of activity in the extension structure but not in the bay neared the existing building, more reason to think that this will become the tunnel ramp once the TBM has been removed.

@DessieDoolan

22 күн бұрын

I've been quoting the tunnel being under the perimeter road. I'll need to correct that in future comments. About another 33m then to the east side of the perimeter road. No fenced off area to suggest the TBM is approaching. Can it be assumed that the TBM is deep enough that it won't disturb the ground surface?

@scottgaree7667

22 күн бұрын

@@DessieDoolan 10:30 A ways into the building still looks unsurfaced? This opening in the perimeter beam could be where the tunnelling equipment is driven out after surfacing in that area.

@DessieDoolan

22 күн бұрын

@@scottgaree7667 My 'current' calculation is that for the TBM to emerge even right at the perimeter grade beam location would require it to gain 36' in 110', which seems excessively steep to me. I'll bore you with the math if you like! The tunnel portal being deep inside the extension where concrete has yet to be placed would seem the logical conclusion.

@davidsalisbury50

22 күн бұрын

@@DessieDoolan It doesn't make sense to me. I assume the TBM is on its way back up. Should be near the surface (within 3-5m) now. If that were the case I would be having areas cordoned off, stopping parking and possibly diverting the traffic on the road. I have seen a slightly smaller than this TBM start the cutterhead, loose the face pressure through the screw, and suck the whole world above it down into the ground (The TBM had flood doors to stop the process but not before 100 or so cubic meters of soil had collapsed in on itself). Happens in a couple of seconds in sandy/clay wet ground. There were little kids playing on the ground directly above just minutes prior to this happening, a puddle had formed out of nowhere (from over excavation of the previous ring), the kids though it was cool and started playing in it, our foreman saw the potential risk and barked at the kids to tell them to get away. A very close call that still haunts me 35 years later.

@davidsalisbury50

22 күн бұрын

@@DessieDoolan But they don't appear to have the segments to get that far! My calculations may be way off of course. I have seen your previous numbers regarding the constraints above the TBM. It seems too late to get it to the surface before that point. The next few days will tell. My end of May prediction for the breakthrough is still looking possible.

Additional light poles going up on the newest part of the top floor of the parking garage yesterday and today!

The world is changing before our eyes 😳

Nice

I think that triangle shaped block on the west side would be a good location for a publicly accessible charger site - right off the main road...

Thanks Joe

@DessieDoolan

22 күн бұрын

1.30am!

@benguthrie49

22 күн бұрын

@@DessieDoolan Odd as I am, I typically go for a 5 or 6 mile walk sometime between midnight and 4 am. extreme night owl. I often catch late jazz til 2 or 3 am and it's easier to keep the schedule most days.

@DessieDoolan

22 күн бұрын

@@benguthrie49 I'm the opposite. 11pm is a late night for me!

Sem palavras esse documentário adoro seu trabalho sucesso esse conteúdo es muito interessante e sim es trabalhar em prol da preservação da raça humana

Here is some interesting information that I got in a reply to my one of my comments on Brad's video 5/23/24... "Yep we start on the 30th, 4 UPS per room with 240 Batteries per UPS, 24 Rooms per floor, for 3 floors.. So 96 UPS per floor, 23,040 Batteries per floor.. 288 UPS and 69,120 batteries… Not including extra rack batteries…" His reply was in response to my comment..... "There is a new permit for the data center..... Special Project Permit #2024-0996 SX-000608 - SX - Battery Storage UPS Submittal Date 5/23/2024"

Awesome joe enjoy.

Thanks Joe. Really like your videos

You ever do a touch and go on the helipad?

Thanks!

@JoeTegtmeyer

21 күн бұрын

Thank you again Douglas!

When the lights are on, could you try to take a look inside of the tunnel from the outside?

Thanks Joe! Rooftop cable trays/ladders: @ 7:27 Two cable spools on the work platform, first spotted by Dessie yesterday. Cable pull coming soon. The double stack cable trays/ladders by the parapet wall run the full length from angled corner to angled corner. Google Earth shows the distance to be about 3,600 feet! The south termination of the cable run is @ 7:49 This will allow medium voltage (MV) cables at 24,900 volts, to bring power from the north end of the building to the data center in the south extension. Cooling structure: @7:42 (Bottom left) Looks like stacks large grey fan shroud segments to be assembled on top the structure for the cooling fans. Fiber optic HDD bore: @ 12:02 (Bottom), 12:08 (Bottom of screen, middle of the road), and 12:12 (Bottom) Joe.... Any chance you can check the other side of the river if time permits? Thanks. I doubt that the bore ends here. 😊 All part of a very long HDD bore for fiber optic cables. Speculating that there may actually be two separate bores. One from the south and one from the north, in order to maintain redundancy for the data center. The north bore beginning @ 21:01 (Left). Northside of casting: @ 21:43 Hoping to get a look into the open vault once the forms are removed to get a conduit count. This is the vault where 12 conduits enter, but it appears that only 8 conduits exit. Also @ 21:43 Concrete pour around the vaults by the building. @ 22:19 Duct-banks being constructed across parking lot. @ 22:30 Another vault location. Black conduit spacers can be seen laying on the ground.

Merci👍👍👍

Does anyone know where the nearest/largest communications hubs are which could provide internet access?

Thanks Joe. Great video. MY production seems to have almost stopped and CT is still early and ramping. It feels like 10000 people to make the number fo CT you are showing is massive overkill. Do you think many more than 10% were fired? Not making MY at Giga Texas could mean a horrible Q2, especially because China numbers are low, and Europe is stalling, so maybe TSLA will really slow a lot when we find out in Jul. Do your sources tell you anything about this noticeable slow down in manufacturing?

@Nphen

22 күн бұрын

Probably slowing things down now and tanking this quarter because there's already been so much bad news. If sales don't pick up in July, they can cut prices until the new model is ready. Sometime this summer Cybertruck will get a $20k price cut. Then demand will explode. They may well be getting the second CT line ready for the "final" ramp to 1,000 per day.

@AMeierhoefer

21 күн бұрын

@@Nphen I agree on the first part but I really have a hard time seeing many people in this economy wanting to spend $70K or even $60K on a truck

Joe, do you know what the tunnel is for? Vehicle transport? And also what the main reason/use for the South extension? I heard a supercomputer but nothing else, I thought it was going to be for the 25k vehicle and the tunnel was for moving them over to the final checkpoint area and bldg.

Joe, which is the name of the song you use in many parts of the video? Thx!

Do you have any idea how far they went with the boring tunnel so far?

No more Cybertrucks in the parking garage?

HI JOE!!!! Fiber Optic cable normally referred to be a ISP Backbone

@ernestgalvan9037

22 күн бұрын

Yeah, fiber used too be the domain of mega-corporations and back-haul and back-bone systems … Now fiber is becoming common in residential construction… I have a fiber running from the wiring closet in front to the wiring closet in the back of my house, and another going to the detached garage/workshop.

@RanchReed

22 күн бұрын

Many normal businesses are connected with Fiber. Large school districts have a backbone of fiber throughout, for example. Regular Ethernet over copper wire is only good up to 100 meters. Multi-mode fiber is good for about 220 meters. Single mode fiber is good for 10k and beyond, depending on the fiber transceiver used at each end.

👋👍

Do you know if Tesla will be recycling the old and damaged batteries at this facility or will they send them overseas ?

Regarding your speculation about the different super computer roof area I doubt they are going to punch wholes through that roof for cooling equipment else why build separate structure for cooling towers. If anything the different roofing material is to guarantee extra long roof life with water resistance. Also I am surprised they just didn't build their own private nuclear power plant for this entire site infrastructure.

@GoCoyote

20 күн бұрын

As to a nuclear power plant idea from an electrician in the power industry: The answer is location, time, and expense. Nuclear power is 2 to 4 times as expensive as solar and wind WITH battery backup (both of which Tesla already has a very cheap supply of). It also has very specific location requirements, which includes large supplies of cooling water as they are thermo-electric power plants. With an existing combined cycle power plant across the river, the chances of adequate cooling water being available for a nuke plant are slim to none. It is also near a major metropolitan area which creates a safety and security nightmare. Then there is time. Building a nuke plant will be a minimum of 20 years, and as long as 30, while the solar and battery systems went up in less than a year. Nuclear power has an EROI of 14 to 1, while new solar and wind range between 20 to 1 and 100 to 1, a much better return on energy investment (EROI is Energy Returned On energy Invested). So for nuclear one can get 14 kWhrs of energy back for every 1 kWhr of energy it took to build and operate the nuke plant, while wind and solar will get 20 to 100 kWhrs of energy from every 1 kWhr of energy it took to build and operate them. Adjusted for inflation, US taxpayers have spent an average of 3.5 billion dollars a year in direct subsidies on nuclear power since 1948, and just 0.35 billion (350 million) a year since 1990 on renewables, yet renewables are now usually the cheapest source of energy available. Nuclear energy is an economic dead end.

Hundreds of CTs, some hidden in the parking garage. More rolling out by the hour. Model Y production slowed if not stopped, very few in the lots. What is going on?

@TeslaElonSpaceXFan

23 күн бұрын

Model Y update/refresh/Juniper 😅

@ReinReads

23 күн бұрын

The new plan for the smaller vehicles is to use existing 3/Y line set ups. They are likely beginning to reconfigure to produce both refreshed (Juniper) Y and a smaller vehicle. Both are expected to come online Q4 or Q1’25.

@patrickspader4062

23 күн бұрын

@@ReinReadsIt’s not often that I read welll considered responses on Tesla forums but that was one of them. Yes let’s hope that this is the case and it’s not demand issues with Model Y and that the staff have been layed off because they are not required for the reconfiguration of the lines for the next cars.

@The_DuMont_Network

23 күн бұрын

I am concerned that I have not seen official announcement of this. The responses have certainly been appreciated and do make sense. IIRC, there are some Ys being made in Fremont? Last I saw there were tons stored at Taylor and possibly elsewhere. I'm still puzzled about all the CTs. It woukd seem they would want them delivered and reap the income, unless they are frontloading Q3?

@DessieDoolan

23 күн бұрын

FWIW. Joe's photos show no Cybertrucks visible in the parking garage. Might have been a one-off need to store them undercover a week ago.

Is there a video today?

@JoeTegtmeyer

20 күн бұрын

Yes

I would expect the the recycled battery cans might be used in the castings

Maybe a data center for all musk companies

soldiers exist to protect civilians - there was never a moment in time when there were no soldiers