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Originally Posted by BG918
It’s an auto manufacturing plant. Tesla has plants in both Reno and Buffalo, not exactly tech hubs either. It would make sense to have the R&D in Austin for that reason but the actual manufacturing is better suited for Tulsa where there is well trained workforce due to the large cluster of aerospace and O&G manufacturing companies located there, along with better access to the rest of the country via highways, rail and river transport.
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I know it's a manufacturing plant. I didn't say that they don't or won't put plants in non-tech locations. I was just merely pointing out that there are more potential synergies with a location in a tech savvy area. They are already doing "autopilot" development in Austin. There is a benefit to having a plant near the people who are working on that project.
It's not a mere coincidence that they have a major plant in Silicon Valley within spitting distance of their primary tech workforce. As expensive as Silicon Valley is, nobody in their right mind would purposely put a plant there without a really good reason.