Data Center Registry
Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas)
Austin, Travis County, Texas
Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) is a data center under construction in Austin, Texas (Travis County), operated by Tesla. The public record puts it at 500 MW planned.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Tesla
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Austin, Travis County, TX
- Coordinates
- 30.2223, -97.6171 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 500 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
- Power source
- Mixed
- On site generation
- 30 MW
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) in Austin, Travis County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Grid power from Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (Giga Texas sits in unincorporated Travis County within Bluebonnet's, not Austin Energy's, service territory) is the primary supply, but Tesla has built genuine on-site generation and storage that make this a defining mixed story.
Notes on the record
Dedicated, purpose-built AI training data center on the north side of Tesla's Giga Texas campus (unincorporated Travis County), separate from and adjacent to the original Cortex cluster. Trains neural networks for Full Self-Driving and the Optimus robot program; uses Nvidia GPUs. First ~250 MW targeted online with a full ~500 MW buildout targeted mid-2026; construction began early 2025. Coordinate is the Giga Texas campus point; Cortex 2.0 is a specific building on that campus.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) data center in Austin?
Nothing on record as of July 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) in Austin, Travis County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) data center?
No lawsuit over Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) appears in the record we track as of July 24, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas), and how big is it?
Tesla is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 500 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas)," updated July 24, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/tesla-cortex-2-giga-texas-austin-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/tesla-cortex-2-giga-texas-austin-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Cortex 2.0: Tesla's new supercomputer at Giga Texas · Interesting Engineering · retrieved July 14, 2026
- 2.A Look at Tesla's New AI Training Center at Giga Texas · Not a Tesla App · retrieved July 14, 2026
- 3.Tesla FSD Cortex AI supercluster running at full capacity, confirms Musk · Tesla Oracle · retrieved July 14, 2026
- 4.Gigafactory Texas, location (unincorporated Travis County, Austin) · Wikipedia · retrieved July 14, 2026
- 5.Tesla Adds Megapacks for Its Next-Generation Supercomputer (Cortex 2) · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 6.Tesla's Giga Texas to Have World's Largest Rooftop Solar Installation (30MW) · retrieved July 24, 2026
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