Wire reporting: (Reuters, via CNA)

SpaceX said Thursday it plans to invest more than $74 billion in two supercomputing campuses, one at Starbase in Texas and one in Cochise County, Arizona, according to a company statement reported by Reuters³.

The New York Times used a $74 billion headline on the same two-state data-center plan; this desk could not read the Times article past the paywall¹.

SpaceX said it expects to spend more than $24 billion at Starbase and about $50 billion on the Arizona campus³.

The Arizona site still needs Cochise County approval and would create about 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs, the company said³.

SpaceX said the Starbase facility would generate its own electricity rather than draw from the public grid³.

Days earlier, a Starbase public hearing notice described a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility, with about $24 billion as estimated capital for initial phases that may expand, CNA reported, carrying Reuters^2,4.

The Starbase City Commission is due Dec. 9 to consider a property tax abatement and related economic development agreement; the notice did not state the abatement's size or the plant's generating capacity⁴.

CNA, carrying the Nov. 9 Reuters report, said SpaceX would construct, own and operate the Texas facilities and that building its own plant could let it skip a years-long wait to connect to Texas' main grid⁴.

CNA, carrying Reuters, said SpaceX bought Elon Musk's AI lab xAI earlier this year⁴.

Techmeme earlier pointed to The Information saying public records showed a Starbase supercomputer and that Gina Hinojosa's election as Texas governor may delay some data-center plans⁵.

What remains unstated in the company notice and Thursday statement includes the Arizona campus's full power draw, the Texas plant's megawatt rating, and whether local boards will approve the tax break and land-use permit^3,4.