How much is SpaceX spending on AI data centers?
SpaceX plans to spend $74 billion on two artificial intelligence computing sites, a $50 billion campus in Cochise County, Arizona, and a $24 billion facility near its Starbase headquarters in Texas, according to Bloomberg. The company announced the plans on its website Thursday, months after it sold bonds to help fund its AI buildout.
The scale of the spending shows how far Elon Musk's company has moved beyond rockets. Its AI unit out-earned Starlink last quarter. SpaceX now rents computing power to AI firms, and Anthropic has become its biggest customer, bringing in a third of its revenue. Google has also agreed to pay the company $920 million a month for computing power.
How many jobs will SpaceX's AI data centers create?
SpaceX says the Arizona campus will create about 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent ones. The Texas project has already created more than 3,000 construction jobs and will employ 500 people once it opens.
Will SpaceX's Arizona AI campus run on gas power?
The Texas site includes a gas-fired power plant that SpaceX will build, own and run. The Arizona campus is a different story. It is not clear whether that site will also run on gas. The company says it will work with local power cooperatives, use existing renewable energy and rely on dry cooling to avoid using groundwater.
Not everyone is convinced. Hundreds of residents confronted SpaceX at a meeting last week over water, power bills and wildlife, a local newspaper reported. Opposition also extends beyond Arizona. In Mississippi, more than 10,000 residents have joined a lawsuit over noise from a gas power plant that powers Musk's data centers.
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