SpaceX's next datacenter will be in Cochise, Arizona: about 6 GW across 9 buildings and a $50 billion investment
SpaceX's energy and data center lead Riley Trettel told a Cochise County meeting that the company's next datacenter will be built in Cochise, Arizona, spanning about 6 GW across nine buildings with a $50 billion investment. He said the project would cut residential power bills by up to 40%, fund $3.6 billion in new power lines paid for by SpaceX, and create 1,000 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs, with no industrial water use and no on-site gas turbines or power generation. It matters because a 6 GW single-site build would rank among the largest AI compute projects ever disclosed, and SpaceX is positioning it as a net benefit to the local grid and community rather than a burden on it.
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- Elon Musk2026-11-05 18:37