"Tesla's Buffalo Solar Panel Factory: Failed Promises and Wasted Investments"
Nearly half of the employees at Tesla's Buffalo solar panel factory in New York are analyzing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving data, instead of working on solar panel production. The factory, which was initially expected to create 3,000 jobs and produce enough solar-panel shingles for 1,000 houses per week, has fallen short of expectations. The state of New York invested nearly $1 billion in the facility, but the output has been significantly lower than anticipated. Tesla currently employs 1,700 workers at the site to avoid penalties from the state. Critics argue that the project has been a costly economic development failure.