SpaceX plans $74B in supercompute campuses
SpaceX says it will build supercompute campuses in Texas and Arizona worth more than $74 billion to train frontier AI systems, pushing the rocket maker further into AI infrastructure.
SpaceX announced two supercomputing projects: a facility at Starbase in Texas's Rio Grande Valley and a second campus in Cochise County, Arizona. The company puts planned investment across the two at more than $74 billion.
Starbase, Texas. SpaceX plans to invest up to $24 billion in the site, which sits on company-owned land near the Port of Brownsville. It says the facility will "train frontier intelligence systems" for medical research, emergency response, advanced manufacturing and national security. It will also help develop and test technology for space-based computing. The site will generate its own electricity instead of drawing from the public grid. SpaceX says the project has already created more than 3,000 construction jobs and will support more than 500 permanent jobs once running. SpaceX has also committed $220 million to expand water and wastewater infrastructure in Brownsville, with $40 million already paid to the local utility board. The money targets about 20 million gallons per day of new supply from sources other than the Rio Grande.
Cochise County, Arizona. This campus is planned at roughly $50 billion, with about 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs. SpaceX says it will work with local electric cooperatives and use existing renewable resources. It says the project could cut members' electricity bills by up to 20%. The site will use dry cooling and plans no industrial groundwater use.
The announcement also mentions SpaceX's $100 billion Terafab chip manufacturing project in Grimes County, Texas. SpaceX did not give compute capacity, power figures, chip suppliers or timelines. It also did not say which AI models the facilities would train or who would use them.