Overview
- SpaceX disclosed plans to invest over $74 billion across two campuses, allocating roughly $24 billion to a Starbase, Texas site and about $50 billion to a Cochise County, Arizona campus.
- The Arizona application covers about 747 acres and describes nine supercomputing buildings, up to six gigawatts of power, up to 24 gigawatt‑hours of battery storage, phased 1.5 GW increases and dry cooling with no planned industrial groundwater use.
- The Starbase plan would sit on land recently moved out of Brownsville city limits, include an on‑site gas power plant sized around 708–748 megawatts, and comes with a $220 million pledge for local water and wastewater projects of which $40 million has been paid.
- Local approvals remain unresolved: Cochise County has scheduled a planning and zoning hearing on December 9 to review the Arizona filing, tax and governance negotiations continue in Texas, and SpaceX has not disclosed construction start dates or detailed project financing.
- SpaceX has backed the expansion with heavy AI spending and recent financing — the company reported large AI capital expenditures, a $25 billion bond sale, strong AI revenue and quarterly net income — a shift that could bring thousands of construction jobs and lasting economic and infrastructure changes to the two regions.