Converge. Build. Expand.
Tesla Giga Texas, Samsung Taylor and SpaceX Bastrop sit within about 30 miles of each other east of Austin. Around them, gigawatt data centers, chip fabs, rocket factories and power plants are going up across the Texas Triangle. AustinIO profiles each facility, the corridors that connect them, and the energy, research and capital they run on.
Hubs
The factories sit in the Austin Supercluster. The research, founders, capital and power that feed them each have a hub of their own, and the Texas Nexus carries the buildout out to the rest of the state.
The inner triangle of Tesla Giga Texas, the SpaceX Bastrop complex and Samsung Taylor, ringed by the US 79 and I-35 South data center corridors. The convergence thesis the rest of the site builds on.
The research and engineering base: the TIE NGMM microelectronics fab, the TACC supercomputers, Cockrell Engineering and Army Futures Command's T2COM.
Founders and venture: Capital Factory, the Austin Technology Incubator, the local VC community, and the unicorns and exits they produced.
Federal, state, county and private capital behind the buildout, and the supply-chain investment that follows the anchor plants.
ERCOT and large-load interconnection, nuclear, gas, wind, solar and storage, and the water every large facility needs.
The Texas Triangle and its corridors, four metro B2B directories, and the regions beyond the Triangle: the Brazos Valley, the Panhandle, the Trans-Pecos, the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast.
31 facilities that lead their category in Texas by size, firsts or strategic role.
Foundational analysis
Why the buildout concentrated in Texas, and the grid and water constraints that set its pace.
The structural logic of AI-industrial concentration in a single US state.
FoundationalGigafactories, fabs and data centers as one system, each feeding the next.
ConstraintGrid independence as the enabling infrastructure of the buildout.
ConstraintThe most active structural limit on buildout pace and scale.
Spotlights
A facility gets a spotlight when it leads its category in Texas by size, is the first of its kind, or carries a role the rest of the state's industrial base depends on.
| Facility | Operator | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tesla Giga Texas Complex | Tesla | Austin (Travis County) |
| Samsung Taylor Fab | Samsung Foundry | Taylor (Williamson County) |
| Stargate Abilene (Campus 1) | Stargate JV (OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, MGX) | Abilene (Taylor County) |
| SpaceX Starbase | SpaceX | Boca Chica (Cameron County) |
| MP Materials Independence Magnet Plant | MP Materials | Fort Worth (Tarrant County) |
| Comanche Peak Nuclear | Vistra (Luminant) | Glen Rose (Somervell County) |
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The book
Daniel M. Sisson
The AI-Industrial Revolution From Austin to Alpha Centauri. AustinIO is the living companion to the book: the book sets out the Industrial Triad and the Texas buildout as of its writing, and this site keeps the facilities, datasets and figures behind it current.