gigafactory
gigafactory noun: a very large manufacturing facility.
Noun
gigafactory (plural gigafactories)
- A very large manufacturing facility.
- The new AI “gigafactories” would be much larger, targeting what the commission called “moonshots”: significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics and scientific discovery. […] While the best-performing AI factories have supercomputers equipped with up to 25,000 advanced AI...2025 April 9, Jennifer Rankin, “EU to build AI gigafactories in €20bn push to catch up with US and China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- A factory producing electric batteries at a large scale.
- “The main constraint on our production is really the cells,” Musk explained. “We are not quite ready to make a big announcement on the cell and battery giga factory, but we are exploring a lot of these options right now.”2013, Dana Hull, “Tesla Motors may make its own batteries”, in San Jose Mercury News
- Tesla Motors has chosen Nevada for its proposed $5-billion gigafactory battery plant, which it says will drive down the cost of its cars.2014, Charles Fleming, “Tesla Motors picks Nevada for planned $5-billion battery factory site”, in Los Angeles Times
Examples of gigafactory in a sentence
- Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in northern Nevada.2015, Myles Udland, “Tesla's new gigafactory will highlight the 2 biggest labor trends in America”, in Business Insider:
- Koch thinks the gigafactory should be hiring more people from the community, whether there are incentives or not.2016, Lydia DePillis, “At Tesla’s gigafactory, a larger battle over worker pay”, in Washington Post:
Forms of gigafactory
| plural | gigafactories |
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Origin of gigafactory
From giga- + factory; Coined by billionaire Elon Musk in 2013 for his Tesla Motors, and since used by others.
Questions about gigafactory
- What does gigafactory mean?
- Gigafactory means a very large manufacturing facility.
- How do you use gigafactory in a sentence?
- Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in northern Nevada.
- What part of speech is gigafactory?
- Gigafactory is a noun.
- What is the plural of gigafactory?
- The plural of gigafactory is gigafactories.
Words near gigafactory in the dictionary
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