Elon Musk’s electronic vehicle company is growing with an estimated $150,000 worth of new technology projects set for Central Texas. Tesla is planning to build three new semiconductor facilities at its Gigafactory headquarters in Austin starting this week.

The EV maker recently submitted three Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) filings for variously sized semiconductor fabs, or fabrication plant, with an estimated cost of $50,000 each. Tesla’s new facilities, scheduled to be finished in three years, come as Samsung continues to make progress on the first half of its $17 billion semiconductor chip factory in a north Austin suburb, which aims to be fully operational by the end of 2026. 

Samsung is also expected to begin construction on its second semiconductor fabrication plant in Taylor by the end of this year. While Samsung uses semiconductor chips to power its electronic devices, Tesla uses the same technology in its vehicles to power autonomous driving, control power systems, run cabin displays and manage basic car parts.

According to Tesla’s TDLR filings, construction on its new semiconductor facilities was slated to start August 25. All three filings also share the same completion date of December 31, 2029.

The first filing under the project name, “North Campus Manufacturing” is set for 1 Harold Green Road, Tesla’s Giga Texas address east of Austin. This project will be a ground up construction of a nearly 7-million-square-foot semiconductor facility.

The second TDLR filed for the same location is labeled as “Austin Semiconductor Fab,” which will be a 489,600-square-foot newly constructed semiconductor facility. Tesla’s third TDLR was for a project called “Cortex 2.0,” expected to be built on a road within the campus at 1035 Robotic Ave., Austin, TX 78725.

That project will be 46,400-square-foot semiconductor facility a part of Tesla’s artificial intelligence (AI) training ground known as “Cortex” at Gigafactory Texas. In early 2026, Tesla said Cortex 2 is online and has started running training workloads, the Austin American-Statesman reports. 

MySA reached out to Tesla for comment, but did not hear back prior to publication.