SpaceX plans $74B+ of supercomputing infrastructure across Texas and Arizona
XFreeze · x · 2026-11-13
SpaceX is planning over $74 billion in new supercomputing infrastructure across two sites:
- Starbase, Texas ($24B): a gas-fired power plant plus a self-operated supercompute facility, reducing reliance on the public grid
- Cochise County, Arizona ($50B): a campus scaling to roughly 6 GW at full build-out
The Arizona project could bring 5,500 peak construction workers, 1,000 permanent jobs, and $3.6B in transmission/substation infrastructure. Computing buildings will be dry-cooled, with no new groundwater wells and no groundwater for industrial cooling. SpaceX says it could lower electricity bills for the local electric cooperative, pending regulatory approval.
SpaceX has also committed up to $220M toward Brownsville water and wastewater infrastructure, with approved projects adding 18 million gallons per day of water capacity. The framing: this is power, compute, and support infrastructure built for an entirely new scale of supercomputing.
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