Tesla says it is going to construct new “1st of its variety” information facilities. The automaker is hiring employees for it and snapping up some current information facilities.

The information middle enterprise is now huge with a market dimension of greater than $250 billion.

Many of the greatest corporations on the planet, that are identified to customers for different merchandise, are in it, like Amazon Internet Companies (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Meta Platforms (Fb).

Now Tesla is stepping into the info middle enterprise.

Tesla has shared a brand new job posting for a “Sr. Engineering Program Supervisor, Information Heart” position first noticed by Electrek final week.

Within the job posting, Tesla says that it’s going to construct “1st of its variety Information Facilities”:

“This position will lead the end-to-end design and engineering of Tesla’s 1st of its variety Information Facilities and will likely be one of many key members of the manufacturing facility engineering crew.”

Tesla didn’t clarify how these information facilities will likely be “1st of their variety”, which isn’t one thing you’d count on in a job posting anyway.

However curiously, the brand new effort comes as Tesla has been taking on information facilities from Twitter.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, the corporate stopped paying numerous its payments, together with some information facilities’ payments.

On the finish of final 12 months, Twitter stopped utilizing information facilities in Sacramento. When discussing the problems relating to Twitter’s information middle, Musk stated that Sacramento is “presumably the worst place to have a knowledge middle” for Twitter Areas. He particularly complained in regards to the warmth.

And but, just some months in the past, The Data reported that Tesla has taken over one of many previous Twitter information facilities leased from NTT Information that the social media firm was utilizing in Sacramento.

The report additionally mentions that Tesla is in talks with Prime Information Facilities to make use of one other information middle that Twitter used to have in Sacramento.

Tesla is seeing its want for information processing rising quickly because it tries to benefit from its rising fleet of thousands and thousands of autos all outfitted with cameras to be able to enhance the neural nets powering its self-driving effort.

The automaker can also be dealing with a rising variety of connectivity options that it tries to promote to automobile homeowners by way of a $10-a-month “Premium Connectivity” subscription service.

On the vitality facet, Tesla can also be dealing with numerous information to function its digital energy plant and its companies to distributed vitality property, like Autobidder and Powerhub.