[FOX] SpaceX announced this week that it's investing more than $74 billion into supercomputing facilities in Texas and Arizona.
"We’re advancing two extraordinary projects: a major new supercompute facility at Starbase in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, and a second campus in Cochise County, Arizona," the company said.
"Together, they represent more than $74 billion in planned American investment, thousands of new jobs, new power and water projects, and the opportunity to transform regional economies while advancing technologies that will benefit humanity," it added.
The company said in the Rio Grande Valley project, SpaceX is "planning to invest more than $24 billion in new supercomputing infrastructure, building on the more than $15 billion already invested in Starship and related infrastructure at Starbase.
"The new project has already generated more than 3,000 construction jobs and is expected to support more than 500 permanent jobs once operational," according to SpaceX. "The facility will generate its own electricity without drawing power from the public grid.
"In Cochise County, Arizona, we’re pursuing a roughly $50 billion supercompute campus expected to create approximately 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs," it also said. "Working with local electric cooperatives, the project aims to strengthen regional energy infrastructure, leverage existing renewable resources, and potentially reduce electricity bills for cooperative members by up to 20% while using dry cooling with no planned industrial groundwater consumption."
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