'All humanity has left the area': paying for Tesla's Gigafactory

Tesla’s battery factory brought high-paid tech jobs to Nevada – but is soaking up huge tax breaks that critics say have seriously depleted public services

Tue 3 Jul 2018 06.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 3 Jul 2018 12.51 EDT

Nevada is the gambling capital of America – and has played a high stakes game by using huge tax subsidies to attract Tesla’s Gigafactory.
Nevada is the gambling capital of America – and has played a high stakes game by using huge tax subsidies to attract Tesla’s Gigafactory. Photograph: David Calvert for the Guardian
When Nevada enticed Tesla to set up a gargantuan battery factory in the desert, America’s gambling capital seemed to have hit the jackpot.

The factory would have a state-of-the art 5.5m sq ft (510967 sq meter) facility – reputedly the world’s biggest building by footprint – and promised to generate tens of thousands of jobs, as well as investment worth $100bn (£76bn).

Cities around the so-called Gigafactory in northern Nevada lined up to reap the bonanza. No longer dusty, provincial versions of Las Vegas, these municipalities would become innovative makers of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars and partners in Elon Musk’s vision of a clean-energy revolution.

That was the pitch.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-has-left-the-area-the-cities-paying-for-tesla-gigafactory

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