SpaceX planned an AI supercomputing expansion exceeding $74 billion in Texas and Arizona
SpaceX announced plans for more than $74 billion in two artificial-intelligence supercomputing campuses: a roughly $24 billion project near Starbase in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley and a roughly $50 billion campus in Cochise County, Arizona. The facilities are intended to support the company’s AI business.
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The Texas campus would occupy 444 acres of land near the Port of Brownsville and generate its own power instead of relying on the public grid, The New York Times reported. SpaceX said it would spend $220 million to expand Brownsville’s water supply, The Hill reported.
SpaceX said the Arizona campus would use dry cooling without consuming water and work with local electric cooperatives to potentially lower power bills, The Hill reported. The New York Times reported that the project still requires county approval. SpaceX expects the Arizona site to create 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs, the Times reported.
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