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IT Home reported on August 4 that Elon Musk revealed the name of the factory after visiting the recently built Texas supercomputing cluster over the weekend.

Musk wrote on X on Saturday that the supercomputing cluster at the Texas Gigafactory is named "Cortex," noting that he had just completed a walkthrough of the new facility. "Cortex" has about 100,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 chips, which are used to train neural networks for Full Self-Driving (FSD) and the humanoid robot Optimus.

IT Home noted that Musk had previously detailed the huge cooling needs of the Cortex supercomputing cluster, explaining that the cluster will require about 130 MW of electricity this year and is expected to exceed 500 MW in the next 18 months. To this end, Tesla installed huge fans and four water tanks in the computer center for cooling.

Musk estimated in June that Tesla's spending on Nvidia chips this year could reach $3 billion to $4 billion, half of the company's total AI-related spending of $10 billion, with the remainder going to internally developed AI inference computers, vehicle sensors and the Dojo supercomputer.