Elon Musk's Big Project That Not Many People May Not Know About

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JAKARTA - We know Elon Musk as a businessman, public figure, and of course an innovator. He is known as the man who successfully built the electric car industry under the banner of Tesla, created the rocket company SpaceX, and most recently he is trying to plant artificial intelligence (AI) into the human brain in a project at the company Neuralink. Behind his big famous projects, Musk actually has projects that many people don't know about. What project?

As quoted by the Independent, Musk and his company Tesla are known to be behind a mega battery project to plug into the Texas power grid which failed during the recent winter storm. The 100-megawatt battery is being built in Angleton, Texas.

The project is reportedly large enough to light up 20,000 homes during the height of summer, Bloomberg reported. The technical work on the project was carried out by Gambit Energy Storage.

Warren Lasher, senior director of systems planning at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said the company is registered under the ERCOT name. He said the Tesla subsidiary was projected to start operating on June 1.

Despite the Tesla electric car being the company's most famous product, Elon Musk has always praised Tesla Energy's prospects. "I think Tesla Energy in the long term will be as big as Tesla Automotive", Musk said. "The energy business is collectively bigger than the auto business".

Build a city

Tesla has recently shifted its focus to Texas. Last December, Musk agreed with this, that the focus of his company had moved away from California.

Tesla is building a Gigafactory lithium-ion battery plant near Austin, Texas. There they will build the Model Y and Cyber ​​Truck models.

Also, Musk said he wanted to build a city called Starbase around the SpaceX factory in Boca Chica, Texas. This location is now a test site for the Mars Starship rocket prototype.

Musk is currently the second richest person in the world with a personal fortune of around 153 billion US dollars according to Bloomberg. Previously he had overtaken the world's first richest man, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos before his Tesla shares slipped.