Tesla Cortex (Giga Texas)
AI data center in Austin, Texas, operated by Tesla.
Tesla's in-house AI training clusters at Gigafactory Texas in Austin, used for FSD and Optimus. Cortex 2 came online in April 2026 next to Cortex 1.
Power: what each source says
Tesla Q3 2026 update (as summarized by analysts): Cortex 1 >105 MW and Cortex 2 >120 MW in production. Q1 2026 deck: Cortex 2 >130,000 H100-equivalents, Cortex 1 >100,000. Some reports cite a 500 MW full design; not confirmed by Tesla.
Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.
Tenants
Tesla
Campus facts
- Operator
- Tesla 1
- Owner / developer
- Tesla 1
- City
- Austin 1
- State / region
- Texas 1
- Country
- United States 1
- First power
- 2024 1
- Chips
- NVIDIA (H100/H200 and newer); >230,000 H100-equivalents across Cortex 1 and 2 (Tesla Q1 2026) 1
- GPUs / accelerators
- Not published
- Cooling
- liquid 1
- Power source
- grid 1
- Coordinates
- 30.22° N, 97.62° W (town level)
- Verified
Sources
- Converge Digest: Tesla activates Cortex 2 at Giga Texas accessed 2026-11-09
- Interesting Engineering: Tesla supercomputer Cortex 2 accessed 2026-11-09