Sunrise view inside Ext & Boring Tunnel! Fire & Evacuation! 26 June 2024 Giga Texas Update (06:40AM)
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What a gorgeous sunrise and start to the day at Giga Texas today! the weather was ideal for flying and video, and I tried to take advantage of the lighting to see inside several sections of the south end and the Boring Tunnel itself!
Timestamps:
Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 4:14
Drone flight footage & infographics: 4:31 to 33:33
On news-worthy even happened I wanted to point out while I was flying on the north end, and that was a trash trailer fire on the west side of General Assembly. I include a video clip of this event in the video intro.
I first started smelling something that seemed like burning plastic but I was not sure where it was as it was partially hidden from where I was standing flying the drone, but then several firetrucks and equipment started arriving with their alarms blaring & lights on, so I tracked them over to the west side of General Assembly #1 and saw a trash truck was on fire and employees had been evacuated from the building.
The firetrucks were able to get the trailer doused with water quickly and put out the fire, also pulling out some of the burning items onto the concrete apron. Nobody was injured, the evacuation was orderly and employees quickly began re-entering the building to get back to work.
On the south end, we see crews active on every level of the extension and a lot of equipment, internal walls, pipes and manifolds bridge cranes, temporary stairs, different ground floor grades and much more. I spend some time looking into the well-lit interior of the south end and the west side of the extension, and also, some of the work going on with the cooling plant and huge water supply pipes being installed in trenches.
On the southeast side of the cooling plant, we see the lined pond getting some additional work, including a possible location for a pump house and a trench at the bottom for a filtration system. Rip-Rap is being installed along the berm of the original pond, possibly for drainage and erosion control.
We see many Cybertrucks on the old east side temporary testing lot today, confirming inventory does change here. Many of these Cybertrucks are awaiting some kind of final work before heading over to the outbound lot on the west side of the highway.
On the east side of the casting machine section, we see crews continuing to work on the bag house plant steel structure, forms and concrete mounts for equipment and tanks, and a large rectangular section with forms for walls. Farther north, more work on the ground area with crew-type piers and receiving door reworks. on the North end of casting, resumed trenching for electrical conduit which will extend through the north parking lot, under Tesla Road and into the clearing just north of Tesla Road, where more crews were working on extending the conduit.
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FIrst half of the intro is missing some images I refer to, but the second half does show video of the trash truck fire and subsequent evacuation. No injures and work resumed quickly.
Thanks Joe
5:56. Southend, east. Apron. Bottom right. Rebar cages for the fire escape tunnel extensions likely.
6:18. Parking Garage. Top left. Some vehicles on Level 1 and 2, a few on 3, other floors empty.
7:11. Southend, south. Level 1. Permanent stair installed above the east fire escape passage. Level 2 of the Data Centre has been extended into the general Southend area. These stairs can serve the Data Centre also.
7:29. Southend, south. Stairs above the fire escape passages are quite wide. I don’t think there is room for an elevator. No sign of an elevator shaft. Seems the passages are dedicated fire escapes only. Same arrangement at 7:49 and 8:18.
8:25. Southend, west diagonal corner. Top left. Scaffold projecting past the building line.
9:05. Southend, west diagonal corner. Level 1. In front of the plywood clad wall, more black bollards. Similar in front of the windows.
9:56. Southend, west. Level 1. Blue water storage trailer, green manifold to the right, pump behind.
Level 2. Large pipes on the floor can only be temporary.
10:22. Southend, west. Level 1. Bottom right. View of the narrow passage that is likely a stair well up to the raised floor on the south side. Other end almost visible at 8:18.
11:12. Main Entrance. Stoneglass. 3 edge pieces have dislodged. Cement based adhesive still leaching.
12:01. EOL, north. Cafeteria. Back end of a knuckle-boom just visible inside.
14:19. Westside, storage. AUS SX-1 RAH. Austin South Extension Level 1 Return Air Handling.
16:18. Westside, old contractors parking lot. Welding lifting lugs on the front shield. To me this shows the TBM is to be re-used.
18:13. Westside, Tunnel Project. Bottom right. 3 ‘Wall connector’ chargers at the other end of the cable to the Tesla.
18:28. Westside, Tunnel Project. Evidently 2 changes in angle in this shot. Utilities supports along the wall an indication also.
21:58. Southend, east. Tank Farm. Spillage containment wall being constructed around the tanks.
22:09. Southend, east pond. Centre, near the excavator. Black pipe quite visible poking out from the corner of the pond. Seepage monitoring likely.
Left. Black pipe that might be the inlet from the Cooling Tower visible where the liner has been pulled back.
23:53. Windtunnel. Cybertrucks seen here over the last week. Maybe part of the sorting out of the issues with the rear trims.
25:11. Casting, east. Baghouse structure. Going higher as shown by the connection plates for bracing on top of the beams.
30:18. Cathode, east. Permit current for ‘Cathode Recycle Expansion’. Permit is for the fire alarm.
30:58. Cathode, east. Electrical control cabinets.
Tunnel view is amazing, thank you Joe again.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks Joe, I always stay watching until you wave “Goodbye”!😊
Congrats on hitting 50K!
Thanks!
Great shots of the tunnel Joe!
Thanks Jeff!
Love the views. Thanks, Joe
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The early morning shots before sun rise is just beautiful 😻
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Very nice shot of the tunnel in the dark
@rudivandoornegat2371 Anybody getting flashbacks to "The Time Tunnel"?
Thanks Joe.
You are very welcome
Stunning sunrise 🌞 ❤❤❤
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The three south tunnels sure look like fire exits at the base of each central staircase. Could also facilitate equipment moves.
There are no fire exit doors in the massive windows,
Grata pode assistir isso sim e trabalhar em prol da preservação da humanidade isso não tem preço
Beautiful magic hour lighting of the property/building Joe!
Thanks! 😎
Merci 👍👍👍
Beautiful shots!
21:30 Like how "ICT" has placed signs just for Joe and company!
Thanks Joe!
Joe if you see the tactical grey interior vs the white it will be good news for those of us awaiting that configuration.
My Beast with grey interior is expected for delivery from Oct-Dec.
Thank you!
I'm in the exact same situation. Joe if you get a chance on one of these flights can you do some close in passes over the lines of trucks, looking down into them so we can see if there are any grey ones? Congrats on the 50k!
I’ll try … I have to get down pretty low to be able to tell!
@@JoeTegtmeyer Thank you for keeping an eye out for those of us awaiting the grey interior.
So doing some math here. Check me to see if I'm doing this right. 500MW for the data center. That's like an entire unit at a power plant. Anyway the circuits that are being added from the substation to the NE corner of the building then run along the roof must be to carry that load. So to figure the Amps at 25 kV (Maybe it's 35kV) would be
500MW = 500,000,000W ÷ 25,000 ÷ 1.73 = 4,620 Amps total. At 35kV this would be 3,300A. This is per phase on a 3 phase system.
I count a total of 8 circuits coming from the substation to the building assuming 3 conduits per circuit. So 4,620A ÷ 8 = 578A at 25 kV or 413A at 35kV. That is a lot.
What about the transformers? They do not look like 500MW transformers to me. Standard practice would be to install large enough transformers so that one can be out of service and the other carry the entire load. Out of service is usually for maintenance but could be due to an outage.
I think when Elon mentioned 500MW he was talking about all his data centers combined, not just this one
I don't know about your math, but I believe the grid is overdue for some serious upgrades.
Someone can help me out if I get this wrong....
I = P ÷ (√3 x V x PF)
Where
I is Current
P is Power
√3 = 1.732
V is Voltage
PF is Power Factor.
The medium voltage cables to the factory are 24.9 kV, close enough to 25 kV.
There are 12 new circuits per duct-bank going to the building. However... At the moment, only 8 conduits per duct-bank actually enter the building. But let's count 12 circuits, considering future expansion.
Let's assume a power factor of 1.
So (500 MW) 500,000,000 watts ÷ (1.732 x 345,000 x 1) = 836.76 Amps taken from LCRA's 345 kV lines.
Primary side of the transformers = 836.76 Amps ÷ 2 = 418.38 Amps per transformer primary, (Not counting existing factory load).
Secondary side of the transformers @ 25 kV
500,000,000 watts ÷ (1.732 x 25000 volts x 1) = 11,547.34 Amps.
11,547.34 ÷ 2 = 5,773.7 Amps per transformer secondary (Not counting existing factory load).
5,773.7 Amps ÷ 12 circuits = 481.1 Amps per 3 phase circuit.
That means ALL 24 circuits (12 x 2) are used. No redundancy!
Considering the likely existing load on LCRA's system, and the existing factory load on the substation....
This whole thing seems unlikely. But I can't prove it wrong for sure.
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I passed a car carrier through Hutto this afternoon with 3-4 Cybertrucks that did NOT have the Foundation badging on either the tailgate or doors.
Foundation trucks are still being built. You are mistaken
The cooling tower seems significantly undersized for a half GW... so there might need to be a couple more built. Possibly this one is for the first 130 MW.
Saw you while heading to Pflugerville this morning.
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The Boring tunnel looks very irregular and the hose proves it as it goes up and down on the bottom. I hope it gets better farther in.
Perhaps the road deck installation is being challenged by the bumps.
thanks for the video Joe. havent watched it yet, but is it not showing 4k for anyone else? seems to be maxed at 1080p
I believe the raised area is either a robot only area or optamus only area providing humans a safe passage way the can’t get hurt. The other reason I suspect is the lower are is material highway also to provide protection to the humans
Nitpick: (mega)watts of power not energy. One way to help you remember is to keep in mind that 1 hp = 735.5 watts and 1 MW = 1360 hp.
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How do you have more followers on X than here on TH-cam? thats wild in of itself! good data point. thanks joe
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@joe What is that behind you? Is that a sidewalk? What’s the metal strip on the edge? Great video!!
I'm guessing light strips but I've never seen them lit.
Looks like a barista made the tunnel.
So I guess there is the type of crash testing we normally see and those may not have a battery installed. Then there's the type of crash test with batteries at various states of charge and those tests should be outside and with that pool to submerge the vehicle.
They'd all have a battery installed. Crash testing without a battery would not give an accurate result. Google giving search results for 'Model Y battery weight' between 450 and 770kg, a quarter and a third of the vehicle mass.
SOC (state of charge) may vary.
Peep the company trying to advertise because they know about the drone videos lol 21:53
Giga Austin doesn’t have a fire station?
Is there a reason why Joe never shows the drone passing over a highway? There seems to always be a brief transition... is it a legal/regulatory thing or what? 🤔
Yes
We have now witnessed the many month process of building a short one lane access road for moving new vehicles under a four lane highway fromthe factory to storage lot. I would be very interested in a comparison of building the tunnel versus building an overpass for the same purpose. Are there any highway building professionals who would like to weigh in on comparing the two in terms of costs, usefulness and time to construct. Thank you very much.
Building an overpass is well-established engineering. The boring machine used to create that tunnel was, as I understand, going through a lot of development proofing and so that greatly slowed the progress. Therefore not an appropriate comparison.
Well, I'll add a note here I think is amusing. Consider how very long it has taken the Germans to approve, construct, and finally open a two-lane one-way overpass at Giga-Berlin. That operation makes The Boring Company look like the rabbit compared to the turtle. 🙂
The other issue is getting approval for an overpass over the toll road. While it’s only three lanes at the moment, with the way that Central Texas has grown and how traffic on the toll road has grown, they’d probably want the overpass built for many lanes and fairly elevated too. Don’t have a clue which one is cheaper long term, but I guess they got a deal.
I wonder that too. In many cities they dig out a subway tunnel then cover it for the above ground traffic. So I think an underpass. With the amount of concrete they have poured and dug up they could have built a huge underpass under the freeway 12 lanes wide. Maybe it has to do with the water table.
@@timsteinkamp2245 Well, that method, called cut and cover, is popular and can be done in wet environments using large pumps or in really wet environments using massive chillers that uses supercooled glycol loops driven on both sides of the path to freeze the ground so its ice, and there for a possiblity almost anywhere. The big issue is while that was a possibility before the toll rode was built, there is no way they are going to allow shutdown of the road to allow a dig. So it’s a moot point.
Soon 50k followers on TH-cam!
That would be great! Thanks!
Actually, Joe has 50,000+ on X already.
Joe, fly through the tunnel.
I do t think so but it would be fun
Why didn't they make two side-by-side tunnels: one for travelling each way??
For returning the drivers? Eventually the vehicles will drive themselves through the tunnels and park.
I gather you don't live in Austin. What time do you have to get up in the morning to start running the drone at 6:40 AM?
I left San Antonio at 0415
@@JoeTegtmeyer Wow. Thank you for your service.
Bit of a shame that it doesn't appear as though Tesla is going to reinstate the window line across the full width of the north face of the building as they proceed to close up the north wall following completion of cell production equipment installation.
Three long term temporary loading platforms across the north face suggest more works to follow. The studwall infilling would be the simplest way to close it up, and then quickly modify as required.
In the last week alone as that wall was being constructed, there was a door opening on the west, then the east, and now both disappeared under the wall sheeting.
@@DessieDoolan Good points.
500MW.... I think they are gonna need more solar panels.
Solar panels wont help much. At least not the panels onsite. If built out to 70,000 rooftop panels as originally planned... That would only = about 30 MW. And since they are facing the wrong direction... Only during the afternoon hours. Can they purchase renewable energy from elsewhere? Possibly. I don't know what the situation is in Texas.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Yeah, I know. It was mostly sarcasm.
Joe,
When I was a kid, like pretty much all the kids we all were space nutz. I watched Alan Shepard blast off on tv and I watched every gemini & apollo mission on tv. You know
what killed my space bliss? Star Wars. Battlestar Galactica. Encounters of the 3rd kind.
And all those other sci fi movies. I thought life depicted in those movies was fantastic
and then I look at an Apollo capsule. It seemed so retarded to me to be using 1 mission space capsules. Then the shuttles arrived and that was a step in the right direction but
still a long way from Sci Fi. The shuttle could not take off by themselves they had to piggyback on a old school rocket. It was really depressing. It seemed to me for us to
catch up to the movies would take us about 500 years. I finally realized I wouldnt
witness any of that in my lifetime. Thats when my fire began to go out. And now, look
what Boeing has built for Nasa. Another GD capsule. They call it STARLINER OOHHHHHH a way cool sci fi name but in fact just another old fashion capsule. Do you suppose they used the Gemini plans? 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Anyway I lost my zeel. Not only
do I not watch space coverage anymore. I just dont care any more. Thanks Hollywood.
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Actually... They did start to go in the right direction with the X - 30 National Aerospace Plane. The project was canceled in the early 1990s. This vehicle would have been able to take off from a conventional airport runway, fly at hypersonic speed point to point any place on the planet, or go into orbit. Top speed Mach 25! Yes, the technology wasn't ready at the time. NOT a reason to give up and quit!
Perfect opportunity to reignite your passion with soacex and starship. Forget Boeing ans ULA, SpaceX is where it's at!
@@shadowmancer7040 Using ancient rocket technology, like the did in the 1960s With the exception of attempting to make it re-usable. Furthermore... Without launch abort/landing abort.... Starship is unsafe for human spaceflight. It is just a matter of time before something bad happens.
I'm sorry you lost your enthusiasm. Science fiction is indeed technologically imaginative, but like most all fiction, it is really about peoples and cultures and how they might behave in alternative circumstances. Today we are at the tepee and canoe stage of space travel. Baby steps; by analogy, to early towns and fleets of tall sailing ships; then to modern cities and cruise ships, carriers, and nuclear subs; eventually (with some sci-fi technology improvements - e.g., inertial dampers and gravity control perhaps, maybe shielding, etc.) to off-world destinations and Star Trek-like starships. (Although it does look like we should see C3PO characters a bit quicker than that. 🙂But as people, we are already arguing about that, as sci-fi predicts.)
I was hoping for a little more like the Jetsons. If what we are told is true we cannot breathe in space and who wants to rely on supplied oxygen with people you can't trust. That is why I don't get Mars. Until man can prove himself on this planet then manned space exploration is a waste of time and money. Even though I believe everything we see is uploaded to a cloud during our sleep for our future, someday we will communicate with ESP and even release our body atoms and be able to transport through space and recreate our body somewhere else but it will take God to give us that power. It is what I would consider ultimate trans-humanism.
Thanks Joe!
Tunnel:
@ 18:29 An excellent view inside the tunnel.
@ 19:22 (By the white container) Two large spools of orange conduit (For fiber optic cable).
Cooling tower:
@ 20:44 (Left side of tower) Fan is stalled on the 6th fan unit.
@ 20:49 Excavation much deeper than needed for the cooling pipe. Below grade pumps? Also @ 21:09
@ 21:45 A view from the east.
Northside of Battery:
@ 27:18 Opening being closed up. Hopefully this is temporary. Otherwise.... Why not put the precast wall panels and the windows back in???
New power supply to the building:
@ 28:29 (Across the easement by the vaults) It is likely that we are looking at the flat surface of the top of the existing main power duct-banks. Which now supply power to the building. The new duct-banks must cross over them.
Also, at the end of the conduit on the left, you can see the black spacers. Which maintain proper conduit spacing during the concrete pour.
When do you think Elon will stop investing into this project and begin reaping the profits?
@@jbbuzzable You don't think all the money he made from the pumped up/hyped up stock price, plus the $56 billion he wants to be paid on top of that is enough?
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn But you claim he is still motivated by greed. You said it, not me.
@@jbbuzzable Shouldn't it be clear to everyone that he is motivated by greed? Why else would someone who already made $billions off of the stock, then want another $56 billion?
And... While he's firing thousands of workers to save money!
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn I'm sure it is clear in your own mind.
Are all the cafeterias served by hot meals or vending machines❓️
17:53 traffic jam in the tunnel!
27:15 It's a shame that in walling up that temporary entrance they aren't putting the windows back to restore the architectural design. It will probably be years before they get to that if ever.
I agree completely. Sad considering how easy it would be to put the precast wall panels and the windows back in. Unless they lost them. But that would be their own fault. No reason to have disorganization either.
Not a fan of the tunnel considering the underpass is very close , seems like a waste of money. On the plus side love Joes videos.
I have always claimed that the tunnel was primarily for testing and demonstration.
When are they going to stain the cathode and dye plant? Do you have any ideas? 🌵🕊️
Probably after the extension
Fly your drone thru the tunnel. Just think of the views.
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Not possible.
@@jbbuzzable Why not? Radio control works through concrete and dirt (or in the air from one end to the other). Drones (maybe not always flying ones) are used to explore caves and tunnels and buildings.
But it would not be spectacular. We have all driven though tunnels and know what they look like. You can ride though them via videos in Las Vegas. What might be interesting is to see a Cybertruck drive through. The CT is wider, I think, than a Model Y. Obviously, I'm sure it will go through easily (maybe under FSD control), but the clearance of The Boring Tunnels in LV seems a bit tight to me (like some city parking garage circular ramps).
Edit: The CT with side mirrors folded is 88.6"; unfolded, it is 95". A Model Y is 75.24" wide. The Boring Tunnel, I think, has an internal diameter of 12' or 144", but the width at the roadway surface is somewhat less than that, probably closer to 110" or 115".
@@WarrenLacefield Joe does not have permission.
@@jbbuzzable Well, yes, of course, there is that (permission required) for sure. As well as rules and laws, e.g., we don't fly under bridges or power lines, etc. for good reasons.
@@WarrenLacefield It is my opinion that we won't see much of the inside of the tunnel until Tesla decides to share it.
Love your videos but too many "Good View & Great Views" comments Joe
I view that as a good thing
It seems like there is a potential issue with egress for the numbers of people in that building. Ingress shows a bottleneck at the entrances.
One would need to study the codes. I will say that the flow of people going out is going to be at a slower rate than people going back in. I've been through many fire drills.
Might want to get a better mic so you don’t have to yell over the traffic.
Why?
@@JoeTegtmeyer it’s really loud
@@xploration1437 Then turn down your speakers
@@JoeTegtmeyer I was just trying to help. The yelling over the traffic is unpleasant.
Thanks Joe!
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