SpaceX to Invest More Than $74 Billion in Supercompute Campuses: $24 Billion at Starbase in Texas, Roughly $50 Billion in Arizona

SpaceX said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $74 billion in two supercomputing campuses, one at its Starbase site in Texas and another in Cochise County, Arizona, Reuters reported. The company expects to spend $24 billion on the Starbase site and roughly $50 billion on the Arizona campus, the company said in a statement.

The Arizona campus, which needs approval from Cochise County, would create about 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs, SpaceX said, according to Reuters. No jobs figure for the Texas site was given in the company's statement as reported.

The Starbase facility would generate its own electricity rather than draw from the public grid, Reuters reported. Earlier this week, the company said it was planning a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase - the same $24 billion project for which, as this station reported Wednesday (SQ-20261111-065), SpaceX has asked its own company town for a tax break, on land that slipped past Brownsville's data center moratorium.

Thursday's statement puts the full price tag on the record for the first time: more than $74 billion across the two states, with the Texas share anchored at the Starbase complex on the Gulf Coast. The Arizona half still has a county approval ahead of it. The Texas Desk will follow the Starbase power-plant and tax-break proceedings as they move.