SpaceX unveils over $74B in US supercomputer campus investments

Aerospace firm SpaceX announced plans on Thursday to invest more than $74 billion in two major supercomputing campuses in the US.

The company is advancing a facility at Starbase in Texas's Rio Grande Valley alongside a second campus in Cochise County, Arizona.

In Texas, SpaceX plans to invest more than $24 billion in new supercomputing infrastructure, having already generated over 3,000 construction jobs.

Once operational, the Starbase facility is expected to support over 500 permanent jobs and generate its own electricity independently of the public grid.

SpaceX also committed $220 million in private capital to expand water infrastructure in Brownsville, adding 20 million gallons of daily capacity independent of the Rio Grande.

In Cochise County, Arizona, the firm is pursuing a roughly $50 billion supercompute campus expected to create around 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent positions.

Working with local electric cooperatives, the Arizona project aims to tap existing renewable energy, use dry cooling without groundwater, and potentially cut members' bills by up to 20%.

The Texas facility will train frontier intelligence systems for medical research, emergency response, advanced manufacturing, and national security while testing space-based computing technologies.

The supercomputer expansion follows SpaceX's recently announced $100 billion Terafab chip manufacturing project in Grimes County, Texas, and ongoing Starlink facility investments in Bastrop.