SpaceX Plans $50 Billion Arizona Supercomputing Campus With Dry Cooling and No Industrial Groundwater
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SpaceX plans to invest around $50 billion in a proposed supercomputing campus in Cochise County, Arizona. The design calls for nine computing buildings with capacity of up to 6 gigawatts when fully developed, using air-based dry cooling and no planned industrial groundwater consumption. SpaceX estimates the project would create around 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent positions. The company is working with local electric cooperatives to supply power and said the development could reduce members’ electricity bills by up to 20 percent.
The proposal is part of a planned expansion worth more than $74 billion across Arizona and Texas. Its dry-cooling approach and stated decision not to use industrial groundwater are relevant to infrastructure planning in an arid region where water availability is a concern. The Arizona campus would require substantial power infrastructure, while its potential economic and electricity-bill effects remain tied to the project’s development and approval.
Cochise County approval remains unresolved: the project is not yet approved, and a petition with around 2,400 signatures asks county officials to reject it. A public hearing is scheduled for December. SpaceX has also announced an investment of more than $24 billion in a Texas supercomputing facility at Starbase; a separate filing proposes a 750-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant there. For Brownsville and Cameron County, SpaceX pledged up to $220 million for water and wastewater projects, with $40 million provided initially. Brownsville’s approved plans identify projects expected to add approximately 18 million gallons of water capacity per day.
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SpaceX’s 6-gigawatt supercomputing campus will use dry cooling, skip groundwater use
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