ROCKET MAN

[Muskonomy @muskonomy]

NEWS: Tesla wants to build solar panels from scratch in Texas and the plans are massive.

A new public filing lays out the whole thing. Tesla is calling it Project Crystal Sun and it would rise on about 3,000 acres in Fort Bend County, just outside Houston.

What makes it stand out is that Tesla would do everything in one place. It would start with raw silicon and carry it all the way to finished solar panels, instead of relying on parts shipped in from overseas.

The size of the bet is about $10.1 billion. Around $1.5 billion goes to land and buildings and $8.6 billion goes to equipment. Tesla wants to break ground this year, finish in 2028 and start making solar cells in early 2029.

Once it is fully running, the plant would employ 9,712 people, with the average job paying around $122,000 a year. At the busiest point of construction, another 1,147 workers would be on site.

The effect on Texas is where it gets big. The filing estimates the plant would add about $107 billion to the state's economy, lift local earnings by $68 billion, support more than 13,000 jobs in total and bring in around $6.4 billion in state and local taxes over time.

And there is a bigger goal behind it. Back in January, at the World Economic Forum, Elon Musk said the Tesla and SpaceX teams are each working to build up to 100 gigawatts a year of solar power made in America. He figured that would take about three years. This factory is a step toward that.

Source: Tesla's Project Crystal Sun filing in Texas, July 2026

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

Elon loved chess so he received many interesting chess games as gifts.
It runs in the family. My twin sister and I were the only girls on the school’s chess team. ♟️

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

🥰🥰😂😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s possible that Starlink may end up doing >90% of IP traffic, even if competitors 10X their bandwidth

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@amuse @RealJamesWoods Extremely unjust

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

True 🥺😂

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

This is 80-year-old Ed from Atlanta. He just sold his $200k Mercedes S-Class and bought a brand new Frost Blue @Tesla Model Y Performance because he wanted FSD.

"I like the self-driving. It's really been great. I feel a lot safer."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Try it out!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Having Starlink on a long flight is a gamechanger in productivity

[ROCKET MAN @jdzdatruth]

@Klaaaam7 Hello, send me a follow back request

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Boring upgrades

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Soon, this will become a reality. 🚀

[Cathie Wood @CathieDWood]

We thought the increase in satellite bandwidth from V2 to V3 was 20X. 100X is astonishing.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

U.S. Army Tesla Model 3 🇺🇸

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Tesla will expand its Japanese delivery network by nearly 60% this year to support growing demand.

• Yokohama and Kobe locations coming in August
• One more location in Kanto and another in Nagoya by year-end
• H1 2026 sales reached ~12,000 vehicles, already more than all of 2025
• June sales alone reached ~4,000 vehicles

Tesla is scaling up rapidly as sales surge in Japan 🇯🇵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Imagine is focused on professional usefulness, fun for consumers and overall ease-of-use

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all.

Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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