There's an estimate 10 000MW additional requirement of power for Swedish Industry (3000MW surplus in the north):

- The Swedish fossil-free steel (& Direct-Reduced Iron) manufacture (9000 MW)

- Amazon/google/microsoft datacenters (2000 MW)

- Conversion to electric cars (1000 MW, currently 128MW)..

- This gigafactory (?MW 50GW Capacity)

The Swedish government plan on solving these needs with Wind turbines (Currently 7000MW capacity), which this weekend was at 1.4% capacity due to no winds.

How is that going to work, do they plan on shutting down production when there's no wind?

EDIT: If you're going to downvote, please explain why, these numbers are not made-up, they are public:

Live stats: https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/

Capacity: https://svenskvindenergi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Stat...

Steel: https://dagenslogistik.se/h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgaspro...

Gigafactory: https://northvolt.com/articles/first-cell/

Average data-center consumption 100-200MW. Amazon 3x, Facebook 3x, Google 1x, Cloudflare 1x and Microsoft 1x, estimate total 2000MW.

Language is funny. A couple of years ago, "Gigafactory" was a silly word that Elon had made up.

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Commendable, if true. Was hoping to read an explanation in the link but it just showed the privacy policy.

Disappointing.

Gigafactory becomes the retina display of manufacturing.

What is so special about this Factory? Isn't that there are 30 similar projects building around the world? US alone has around 15 gigafactories planned/building by 2026?

a few by tesla and the rest:

Manufacturer Location Expected Opening

Ford Northeast of Memphis, TN 2025

Ford & SK Innovation Central KY 2025

Ford & SK Innovation Central KY 2026

General Motors & LG Chem Lordstown, OH 2022

General Motors & LG Energy Solution Spring Hill, TN 2023

General Motors & LG Energy Solution To be determined (TBD) TBD

General Motors & LG Energy Solution TBD TBD

SK Innovation Northeast of Atlanta, GA 2022

SK Innovation Northeast of Atlanta, GA 2023

Stellantis & LG Energy Solution TBD 2024

Stellantis & Samsung SDI TBD 2025

Toyota Southeast of Greensboro, NC 2025

Volkswagen Chattanooga, TN TBD

> Marking a new chapter in European industrial history, the cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.

This seems like a ... is this true? This boast made me feel sad. Is this really how far behind European manufacturing is?

Sad that the extremely high taxes (and price rises) on electricity in Sweden mean diesel cars are still cheaper in some parts of the country.

We should push for all vehicles in cities to be electric at least. The Tesla 3, Honda E, etc. are perfect for that.

Is any slightely larger than average factory building now a Gigafactory?

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World need Terrafactories ! 20 of these, and we complete the transition to EV. This factory is a drop in the ocean

Its really sad that such achievements in Europe always comes from public investments and not private only funds https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/pt/ip_20_...

What is a lower-case-g gigafactory? Just a factory that makes lithium-ion batteries?

I am looking for a contractor who can do turnkey pouch, and/or prismatic cell factories for a client in South Asia.

good news!

Instead of batteries why can't we reverse the turbines in hydro power plants?