SpaceX가 텍스처와 애리조나에 740억 달러 규모의 1단계 AI 데이터센터 구축에 대한 비전과 설계를 공개했으며, 일부 승인은 아직 필요한 상태다.
I have been tracking SpaceX's buildout of AI data centers for weeks. We now have the designs for what that complex will look like. Approvals are still needed in Texas and Arizona. SpaceX in Texas has started construction. If there is a delay, the chips will not go to the sites without full permits. Ninety percent of the spending will not happen without full approval and permits.
SpaceX is asking its own company town, Starbase, Texas, for a tax break on a $24 billion natural gas power plant and supercomputing facility. The land it selected sits just outside the reach of a data center moratorium that took effect in neighboring Brownsville last week. The $24 billion figure covers only the initial phases, and the notice leaves room for future expansions. The Starbase City Commission will consider a property tax abatement and a related economic development agreement at a 7 p.m. hearing on December 9. Starbase annexed the 444-acre property in September, along with more than 7,100 additional acres of land.
SpaceX has just officially announced plans to invest more than $74 billion to build two massive AI supercomputing facilities in Texas and Arizona. The announcement includes the following:
- A $24 billion facility near Starbase, Texas
- A $50 billion campus in Cochise County, Arizona
- More than 10,000 construction jobs
- Over 1,500 permanent jobs
- A $220 million investment in Brownsville water infrastructure
The facilities will train advanced AI systems and help develop technologies for future space-based computing.
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt), November 12, 2026
SpaceX is trying to get Cochise County, Arizona, to allow a 6-gigawatt facility.
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