12:53 the roof looks like it needs a good cleaning from all the dust that’s settled there. Looks like a job for a group of Optimus humanoid robots armed with power wash hoses!
Thanks Jeff. 1:40. Southend. Cooling tower. White items would be the drive motors for the fans. ICT signage for our benefit. International Cooling Towers of Deer Park, Texas. 2:59. Battery, west. Apron. Bins of 4680 battery cans etc. 3:36. Tesla Road. Trenches extended to the full width of the road. 4:26. East Parking Lot. Car fire location. Can’t have been an EV, would have been all over the news otherwise. I think that’s 3 vehicle fires in these videos in 4 years. 4:58. Parking Garage. Low enough flight to be able to see through the building. 5:39. Far East Contractors yards. Pipe Fabrication workshops. I wonder if any details about the Data Centre cooling system can be extrapolated from these pipes being spray painted in a gloss paint. I would guess uninsulated, exposed to view perhaps. 7:30. Die Shop, west. Pair of empty IDRA delivery crates. 9:40. Westside. Tunnel Project. Conveyor belt cassette. Additional conveyor added, lower beam dropped. 10:20. Westside north. Storage yard. Evapco units. Not for the Southend Cooling structure as it turns out. Left. 5 white pressure vessels of varying sizes and orientation.
re 10:20 it is interesting that a full cooling tower design is selected, as compared to the Evapco units on top of the chillers next to Cathode. In the latter case, the units are obviously adequate to remove the heat from the chillers, so if the same type chillers could do the job for a datacenter, then it would just be a matter of how many chillers+ Evapco units would be necessary, plus the customary datacenter-type spares. But we get the Full Monthy cooling towers, with a lot of height, space, tower-internals and custom water spray nozzles for optimum counter-flow between water spray...droplets and air. I looked up a regular Austin summer day and came up with 100F (38C) and a relative humidity of at least 30%. At these conditions the theoretical Wet Bulb Temperature that can be achieved is 24C. But to get the outlet cooling water (very-) close to 24C requires almost exponentially taller cooling towers in order for the air-water contact to reach full equilibrium. So the upshot is that with these big cooling towers under construction they are going to make a real effort to get within a reasonable distance to the wet bulb - say 4C higher at 28 degC. Probably that is the best match for a water cooled system in the datacenter.
@@hardernl8893 10:20. Southend Cooling Tower. Will the chillers be located under the cooling tower platform? Would it be right to assume a simpler system compared to Cathode, which seems to be doing a lot of things in not much space.
@@DessieDoolan the whole point of going for a low cooling water supply temperature (from the towers into the building) maybe to avoid chillers, if direct water cooling at say 30 degC in large volumetric flows is ideal for the chips and the rest of the datacenter. Simplicity (one system) is preferable for maximum reliability, which is further guaranteed via the buffer vessels. And add extra HVAC for personnel which requires say 20 degC. Those standard HVACs can als use the water supply for heat rejection.
@@DessieDoolan That is correct. I think the Impact Report mentions that make-up water for cooling systems is the largest single water consumer in a Giga Factory.
Thanks Jeff! Power: Northside of casting: @ 0:21 (Bottom) Rebar placed around vault for concrete pour. @ 3:35 (Left) Trenching and construction of 2 duct-banks, 12 conduits each. Rooftop cable trays: @ 1:25 (Bottom right) Two cable spools on top of the work platform ready for cable pull along 3,600 feet of cable trays. @ 12:55 (Bottom right) to 13:30 (Right) About 3,600 feet of double stack cable tray being constructed along the east parapet wall. That is, based on measurements from Google Earth. Cooling Structure: @ 1:35 (Bottom right) 8 stacks of fan shroud segments to be placed around the circles in the top of the structure. Fiber optics: @ 2:47 (Bottom left) Trench surrounded by black fence from the north end of the HDD bore to the freeway berm. There is another HDD bore at the top of the berm north to the freeway exit. Spool of orange conduit @ 3:09 Megapacks: @ 8:33 Once again.... Caution tape around the northwest corner of the yard.
I’ve been counting the tunnel liner segments also. Since I wasn’t smart enough to count them until after the tunnel was started, I can only guess at the progress. I’m thinking that 12 segments (4 pallets of 3each) make one complete ring, about 1 meter of horizontal length. What is your opinion? I’m curious if I’m even in the ballpark.
@@garyhenderson8178 6 segments to a ring. approximately 260m excavated so far. Around 45m worth of rings remaining (depending on number of damaged segments (painted red)). 250-300m of conveyor added and a new length of mains power cable taken into the tunnel over the weekend. But segment supply seems to have stopped so hard to tell how much further to go. My money is on a surface breakthrough 20m short of the gap in the factory extension perimeter wall. But it may extend inside the building.
@@garyhenderson8178 Pretty sure 6 segments complete one ring. They stack them in 3s when they are stored and transported so 2 piles equal one ring. 1 meter horizontal length sounds reasonable. We should be able to get more precise sizes from Joe Tegtmeyer's videos since he's been to the Boring Company HQ and stood next to a ring. I'm wondering what the height of the belt cassette for the spoils belt is. That would show us how much they lengthen the belt as they tunnel.
Who knows? While we all buy a shitload of stuff from Amazon, their biggest profit center is actually AWS, their cloud and computing arm that was started as an offshoot of the primary company. So if Teslas was to turn out to be a major conglomerate of several industries it wouldn’t surprise me.
@@Bill_N_ATX So the guy who promised us a "sustainable future" and "affordable EVs" decides to build some of the most energy hungry technology in existence... Data centers. That is what wouldn't surprise me.
@@Bill_N_ATX I am definitely not an expert on data centers. But would I be correct in saying that even the most efficient data centers use a tremendous amount of energy? Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not against data centers. The problem is hypocrisy when the guy comes out and says that he wants a "sustainable future" and "affordable EVs".... Then delivers neither! And of course, this is only one example of a disconnect between what he promises and what he actually delivers.
12:53 the roof looks like it needs a good cleaning from all the dust that’s settled there. Looks like a job for a group of Optimus humanoid robots armed with power wash hoses!
Tesla should have a "Spring Clean up Day". A lot of finished areas look like a Big "Junk Yard"...maybe take a few lessons from Giga Berlin!!
My OCD would power wash the roof every other day. 😝😝
Thanks Jeff.
1:40. Southend. Cooling tower. White items would be the drive motors for the fans. ICT signage for our benefit. International Cooling Towers of Deer Park, Texas.
2:59. Battery, west. Apron. Bins of 4680 battery cans etc.
3:36. Tesla Road. Trenches extended to the full width of the road.
4:26. East Parking Lot. Car fire location. Can’t have been an EV, would have been all over the news otherwise. I think that’s 3 vehicle fires in these videos in 4 years.
4:58. Parking Garage. Low enough flight to be able to see through the building.
5:39. Far East Contractors yards. Pipe Fabrication workshops. I wonder if any details about the Data Centre cooling system can be extrapolated from these pipes being spray painted in a gloss paint. I would guess uninsulated, exposed to view perhaps.
7:30. Die Shop, west. Pair of empty IDRA delivery crates.
9:40. Westside. Tunnel Project. Conveyor belt cassette. Additional conveyor added, lower beam dropped.
10:20. Westside north. Storage yard. Evapco units. Not for the Southend Cooling structure as it turns out.
Left. 5 white pressure vessels of varying sizes and orientation.
re 10:20 it is interesting that a full cooling tower design is selected, as compared to the Evapco units on top of the chillers next to Cathode. In the latter case, the units are obviously adequate to remove the heat from the chillers, so if the same type chillers could do the job for a datacenter, then it would just be a matter of how many chillers+ Evapco units would be necessary, plus the customary datacenter-type spares. But we get the Full Monthy cooling towers, with a lot of height, space, tower-internals and custom water spray nozzles for optimum counter-flow between water spray...droplets and air. I looked up a regular Austin summer day and came up with 100F (38C) and a relative humidity of at least 30%. At these conditions the theoretical Wet Bulb Temperature that can be achieved is 24C. But to get the outlet cooling water (very-) close to 24C requires almost exponentially taller cooling towers in order for the air-water contact to reach full equilibrium. So the upshot is that with these big cooling towers under construction they are going to make a real effort to get within a reasonable distance to the wet bulb - say 4C higher at 28 degC. Probably that is the best match for a water cooled system in the datacenter.
@@hardernl8893 10:20. Southend Cooling Tower. Will the chillers be located under the cooling tower platform?
Would it be right to assume a simpler system compared to Cathode, which seems to be doing a lot of things in not much space.
@@DessieDoolan the whole point of going for a low cooling water supply temperature (from the towers into the building) maybe to avoid chillers, if direct water cooling at say 30 degC in large volumetric flows is ideal for the chips and the rest of the datacenter. Simplicity (one system) is preferable for maximum reliability, which is further guaranteed via the buffer vessels. And add extra HVAC for personnel which requires say 20 degC. Those standard HVACs can als use the water supply for heat rejection.
@@hardernl8893 Ah, ok I misunderstood. In this system the circulating cooling water passes through the cooling tower and some is lost to evaporation?
@@DessieDoolan That is correct. I think the Impact Report mentions that make-up water for cooling systems is the largest single water consumer in a Giga Factory.
Thanks Jeff
Thanks Jeff! Great to have coverage on a Sunday especially before a holiday!
Now everyone power down and enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Tesla is getting better every day
Nice one Jeff! Always the most relaxing your of Iga Texas, progress is amazing thanks for continuing to share!
Thank you!
Incrível documentário grata por poder assistir sucesso sempre no aguardo dos próximos conhecimento e vida
Thanks Jeff!
Power:
Northside of casting:
@ 0:21 (Bottom) Rebar placed around vault for concrete pour.
@ 3:35 (Left) Trenching and construction of 2 duct-banks, 12 conduits each.
Rooftop cable trays:
@ 1:25 (Bottom right) Two cable spools on top of the work platform ready for cable pull along 3,600 feet of cable trays.
@ 12:55 (Bottom right) to 13:30 (Right) About 3,600 feet of double stack cable tray being constructed along the east parapet wall. That is, based on measurements from Google Earth.
Cooling Structure:
@ 1:35 (Bottom right) 8 stacks of fan shroud segments to be placed around the circles in the top of the structure.
Fiber optics:
@ 2:47 (Bottom left) Trench surrounded by black fence from the north end of the HDD bore to the freeway berm. There is another HDD bore at the top of the berm north to the freeway exit. Spool of orange conduit @ 3:09
Megapacks:
@ 8:33 Once again.... Caution tape around the northwest corner of the yard.
Always looking for your flyovers,You've been since the beginning!More Power to you!:)
Almost all the tunnel wall segments have been used but they added lots of dirt spoil conveyer belt so more tunneling to go.
I’ve been counting the tunnel liner segments also. Since I wasn’t smart enough to count them until after the tunnel was started, I can only guess at the progress. I’m thinking that 12 segments (4 pallets of 3each) make one complete ring, about 1 meter of horizontal length.
What is your opinion?
I’m curious if I’m even in the ballpark.
@@garyhenderson8178 6 segments to a ring. approximately 260m excavated so far. Around 45m worth of rings remaining (depending on number of damaged segments (painted red)).
250-300m of conveyor added and a new length of mains power cable taken into the tunnel over the weekend. But segment supply seems to have stopped so hard to tell how much further to go. My money is on a surface breakthrough 20m short of the gap in the factory extension perimeter wall. But it may extend inside the building.
@@garyhenderson8178 Pretty sure 6 segments complete one ring. They stack them in 3s when they are stored and transported so 2 piles equal one ring. 1 meter horizontal length sounds reasonable. We should be able to get more precise sizes from Joe Tegtmeyer's videos since he's been to the Boring Company HQ and stood next to a ring. I'm wondering what the height of the belt cassette for the spoils belt is. That would show us how much they lengthen the belt as they tunnel.
@@KenWerkSolar Segments are nominally 60" 1.5m.
Merci👍👍👍
Wow
well now that Texas giga has a virtual ps,that can make money, only logical to build a data centre.:)
I Suspect the Tunneling operation will have 3 outlets, not one.:)
Do you have inside knowledge on this?
How can it split into 3?
Sure looks like cranking out cars is not their top priority. AI and robotics is.
Who knows? While we all buy a shitload of stuff from Amazon, their biggest profit center is actually AWS, their cloud and computing arm that was started as an offshoot of the primary company. So if Teslas was to turn out to be a major conglomerate of several industries it wouldn’t surprise me.
@@Bill_N_ATX So the guy who promised us a "sustainable future" and "affordable EVs" decides to build some of the most energy hungry technology in existence... Data centers. That is what wouldn't surprise me.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn but there are energy efficient data centers and there are those that aren’t. Hopefully this one will be.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Of course you didn't notice the solar panels on the roof, or the Megapacks ...
@@Bill_N_ATX I am definitely not an expert on data centers. But would I be correct in saying that even the most efficient data centers use a tremendous amount of energy? Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not against data centers. The problem is hypocrisy when the guy comes out and says that he wants a "sustainable future" and "affordable EVs".... Then delivers neither! And of course, this is only one example of a disconnect between what he promises and what he actually delivers.