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Tesla has started the Earthworks for Project Crystal Sun!

This is/was Tesla's proposed area for Project Crystal Sun, a $10.1 billion solar-cell and panel factory. It appears Tesla has decided to build here!

The roughly 3,000-acre project would manufacture everything from silicon ingots to finished solar panels and create approximately 9,712 permanent jobs. Production is targeted for early 2029.

I decided to swing by yesterday and found massive clearings, equipment staging areas, the old homestead is being used, and they are already leveling a large area.

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SANU 2nd Home, a Tokyo-based second-home service that operates 41 locations with 251 rooms, is working with SpaceX via Starlink Japan to place Starlink broadband into every unit of SHELL, a new modular cabin set to debut in 2027.

The goal is reliable internet deep in nature, where phone and fiber service barely reach.

Starlink's antenna placement is planned in the design stage instead of being added after the cabin is built. SHELL is a roughly 100-square-meter wooden cabin with a 9-meter span and no interior columns. More than 90% of it is built in a factory and it goes up on site in about two weeks.

The cabins will be sold through SANU's co-ownership program, with shares starting in the ¥5 million range. SANU's co-CEOs are Gen Fukushima and Takahiro Homma.

SANU also plans to test Starlink at its existing mountain and island locations where fiber is hard to install.

Duferco Wallonie and BSTOR inaugurated D-STOR, a 36 Megapack 2XL site on Duferco's former steelworks site in La Louvière, Belgium.

Two Walloon ministers attended: Cécile Neven, Minister of Energy, Air-Climate Plan, Housing & Airports, and François Desquesnes, VP & Minister of Territory, Infrastructure, Mobility & Local Authorities.

The park storage capacity as 144 MWh and has been running since April. It cost about €70 million, and the two companies own it 50/50.

Per David Arnaud. Tesla Energy EMEA Head of Commercial Storage Sales, "Congrats Pierre Bayart and Cédric Legros for this achievement. Proud we worked together on this one (and many more)."

SpaceX has aquiered 6 lots in 1 block at the El Jardin Resubdivision in an area of east Brownsville, well inland from Starbase. It sits just north of Brownsville's airport, near a bend of the resaca, an old river channel.

The appraisal district shows the six parcels at 5, 6, 5, 5, 6.06 and 5 acres. That adds up to 32.06 acres. It appraised at about $2.74 million combined.