SpaceX Plans More Than $74 Billion in Texas and Arizona Supercomputing Campuses
SpaceX says the planned campuses at Starbase and in Cochise County would add computing capacity, jobs and utility investments. The projects are still being advanced, with approvals and policy agreements part of the process.
SpaceX said Thursday that it is advancing supercomputing projects in South Texas and Arizona that together represent more than $74 billion in planned investment.
The company described a new facility at Starbase in the Rio Grande Valley and a roughly $50 billion campus in Cochise County, Arizona. The announcement concerns planned development, not completed facilities.
For the Texas project, SpaceX said the facility would generate its own electricity instead of drawing power from the public grid. The company said construction has already generated more than 3,000 jobs and that the completed facility is expected to support more than 500 permanent positions.
SpaceX also committed $220 million toward water and wastewater infrastructure in the Brownsville area. The company said it has already provided $40 million to the Brownsville Public Utilities Board and that the proposed improvements could add approximately 20 million gallons of daily water capacity. Those figures are company projections.
In Arizona, SpaceX said the proposed campus could create approximately 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs. The company is seeking approvals and working with local electric cooperatives on energy infrastructure. It said the campus would use dry cooling, with no planned industrial groundwater consumption or new wells.
The company said the investments depend on local partnerships and stable policy arrangements. No opening date was announced for either campus.