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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Is gigafactory just like a word we have to live with existing now?

[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It’s basically the gigachad of the factory world.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

"annual capacity of 1 GWh"

[–] credo@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s going to be confusing when we get to terafactories and then petafactories. One pumping out Halloween joy and the other filled with llamas and stuff.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He names things like I named my 90s teenage AIM accounts.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Elon. Tesla came up with the name of these things.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But it's called a gigafactory because it produces 1 GWh.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also it's 1000x bigger than a mega factory. We know this because if it was 1024x bigger, it would be a gibifactory.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hmm, so a regular factory is 1/10^9^ the size of a gigafactory? The one in Texas is 10M ft^2, so a regular factory would be 0.01 ft^2^, 1.44 in^2^, or 9.29cm^2^. Seems legit.