SpaceX plans more than $74 billion in AI supercomputing campuses in Texas and Arizona

SpaceX said Thursday it plans to invest more than $74 billion in two AI supercomputing campuses: about $24 billion for a facility at its Starbase site in Texas's Rio Grande Valley that will generate its own power from a gas-fired plant, and roughly $50 billion for a 747-acre campus near Willcox in Cochise County, Arizona. The Arizona project still needs county approval and faces local opposition, with a public hearing set for Dec. 9; SpaceX says it would create about 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs and use dry cooling with no planned industrial groundwater use.