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Entity dossier · Nº 001

Tesla, Inc.

Electric Vehicles and Energy NASDAQ: TSLA Public tesla.com ↗ Austin, Texas SEC CIK 1318605 ↗

Tesla scaled AI training compute and on-site generation; no policy data available. Model synthesis · opinion

Unranked · insufficient data
Not ranked: energy source found but couldn't be read (4: HTTP 403); retry scheduled. We publish what was verified, but an entity is ranked only with at least 60% of the weight scored, more than 40% of the scored weight measured, and confidence above 20%. Ranking rules. Missing data is never filled with a default.
Energy source couldn’t be read. We found 4 energy-related sources for this entity but could not read them (too large, blocked or unreadable), so it is not ranked rather than scored without energy. A retry is scheduled. How coverage works.

Index composition

65% measured · 35% opinion · method
Energy throughput Measured 30% —   no data
Compute capacity Measured 20% 6.0 new 65%
Growth gradient Measured 15% 4.2 0.0 71%
Frontier acceleration Opinion 15% 6.0 +2.0 61%
Builder velocity Opinion 12% 6.0 +2.0 52%
Permission to build Opinion 8% —   no data

Δ = change vs run N-1 (2026-10-09). Index = weighted mean of the scored categories (weights renormalized over what was scored) · coverage 62% · confidence 39% · measured share 56% of the scored weight (opinion 44%). No “overall” is asked of the model. Scores are AI-assisted (disclosures).

Run history

Every published measurement, newest first. N is the run on the leaderboard now; failed attempts are not shown. Unranked runs show no Index; Δ and the Index trend compare ranked runs only.

RunPublishedIndexΔK-equivMethodView
N current 2026-10-09 Unranked — — pipeline-v2.6 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 viewing
N-1 2026-10-09 Unranked — — pipeline-v2.4 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 View run N-1
N-2 2026-10-09 Unranked — — pipeline-v2.3 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 View run N-2
N-3 2026-10-09 Unranked — — pipeline-v2.2 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 View run N-3
N-4 2026-10-08 Unranked — — pipeline-v2.2 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 View run N-4
N-5 2026-10-08 Unranked — 0.073 pipeline-v2.1 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 View run N-5

A later run (2026-10-10) completed but found too little verified data — energy source found but couldn't be read (1: HTTP 403; Wayback copies unusable: 20260611033023 rate_limited); retry scheduled — so it was not published. Run N stays current.

Measured — computed in code from reported figures

Joules · weight 30%

Energy throughput

—no data

No verified annual energy-consumption figure was found, so this category is unscored.

P = annual energy (J) / seconds per year → average watts. Score = clamp(2.5 × (log₁₀P − 7), 0, 10). Kardashev-equivalent K = (log₁₀P − 6) / 10.

Watts of thought · weight 20%

Compute capacity

6.0/ 10

Reported operating data-center capacity: 260 MW (Q2 2026) = 260 MW → score 6.0.

Planned / under construction: 500 MW (mid-2026) — shown, not scored.

Score = clamp(2.5 × log₁₀(MW), 0, 10). · confidence 65%

Slope · weight 15%

Growth gradient

4.2/ 10

Compound annual growth: capex +6%/yr over 3y, revenue +5%/yr over 3y → score 4.2. Not available: energy (confidence reduced).

  • Verified evidence
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 7,158,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2022-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001628280-25-003063) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-09 ↗
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 8,899,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2023-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001628280-26-003952) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-09 ↗
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 11,342,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2024-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001628280-26-003952) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-09 ↗
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 8,527,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2025-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001628280-26-003952) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-09 ↗
  • +4 more in Reported figures
Each available sub-metric's compound annual growth rate (up to 3 years) is mapped piecewise-linearly through the anchors, then combined with weights capex 50%, revenue 25%, energy 25% (renormalized over what is available). · confidence 71%

Opinion — model-judged against written rubrics, from verified quotes only

Opinion · Policy · weight 8%

Permission to build

—insufficient

No evidence on permitting, energy policy or open technology positions.

Opinion Rubric

Reported figures

MetricValuePeriodSource
Capital expenditure 8,527,000,000 USD FY2025 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Capital expenditure 11,342,000,000 USD FY2024 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Capital expenditure 8,899,000,000 USD FY2023 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Capital expenditure 7,158,000,000 USD FY2022 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 94,827,000,000 USD FY2025 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 97,690,000,000 USD FY2024 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 96,773,000,000 USD FY2023 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 81,462,000,000 USD FY2022 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Data-center capacity (operating) 260 MW Q2 2026 notateslaapp.com ↗
Data-center capacity (planned) 400 MW end of 2026 notateslaapp.com ↗
Data-center capacity (planned) 500 MW mid-2026 suedatacenters.org ↗

Sources we fetched and verified

  1. SEC XBRL company facts — Tesla, Inc. data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001318605.json · fetched 2026-10-09 · primary
  2. EMAS Environmental Statement Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg 2026 digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/EMAS-... · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 585235a29f9c · primary
  3. Tesla 2024 10-K Filing ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000162828025003063/tsla-20... · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 2957d89daa20 · primary
  4. Tesla Impact Report 2023 Highlights tesla.com/ns_videos/2023-tesla-impact-report-highlights.pdf · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 8f7f5676e266 · primary
  5. Tesla Doubles Texas AI Compute Capacity in Q2 2026 - Not a Tesla App notateslaapp.com/news/4509/tesla-doubles-texas-ai-compute... · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 834d7b9c0c6d
  6. Tesla Cortex 2.0 AI Training Cluster (Giga Texas) Data suedatacenters.org/data-centers/tesla-cortex-2-giga-texas... · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 89dc24bb504b
  7. Tesla (TSLA) Capital Expenditures (2010 - 2026) | Business Quant businessquant.com/metrics/tsla/capital-expenditures · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 3cd256b5cdc0
  8. Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called 'Megapod' | Electrek electrek.co/2026/06/21/tesla-megapod-ai-data-center-hardware · fetched 2026-10-09 · sha256 d7a97c1df126

5 other candidate links were rejected (dead, soft-404, blocked or unreadable) and are not shown.

Run N · 2026-10-09 12:44 PDT · 1m 48s · 8 stages · grok-4.3
StageStatusTimeWeb searches
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researchsucceeded18 s4
edgarsucceeded0.2 s—
fetchsucceeded1m 07s—
extractsucceeded13 s—
computesucceeded0.0 s—
judgesucceeded8.8 s—
aggregatesucceeded0.0 s—

pipeline-v2.6 · prompts-v2.4 · rubrics-v1 · weights-v1 · bundle 51eec73010a9 · code e14a082

Last updated 2026-10-09 How the Index is computed