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Musk Doubles Hiring Goal to 10,000 at Tesla’s Austin Factory

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Elon Musk can’t stop tweeting about all the jobs he’s bringing to Texas.

Tesla Inc.’s new factory in Austin will need 10,000 hires through 2022, double the previous pronouncement, Musk said Wednesday on Twitter. The tweet came less than an hour before President Joe Biden is slated to lay out his infrastructure plan, in which clean energy and new jobs will be a big focus.