SpaceX 投资逾740亿美元在德州与亚利桑那建两座超级计算园区
SpaceX 11月12日宣布，计划投资逾740亿美元，在德克萨斯州 Cameron County 的 Starbase 与亚利桑那州 Cochise County 各建一座超级计算园区，用于训练该公司的超级智能（SI）模型。这批算力将支持医疗研究、应急响应、先进制造与国家安全等工作。
在德州 Rio Grande Valley 的 Starbase，SpaceX 计划投入逾240亿美元新建超级计算基础设施，其中包括一座自备燃气电厂，园区自产电力、不占用公共电网。项目地块约444英亩，位于 Brownsville 港附近，已由 Brownsville 市划转至 Starbase 市。SpaceX 表示，该项目已带来3,000多个建筑岗位，建成后预计提供500多个长期岗位；公司还承诺投入2.2亿美元，改善 Brownsville 与 Cameron County 的供水与污水处理基础设施，其中4,000万美元已拨付 Brownsville 公共事业委员会。Starbase 市委员会定于12月9日审议该项目的房产税减免与经济发展协议。
在亚利桑那州，SpaceX 计划在 Cochise County 投资约500亿美元，园区占地约747英亩，位于 Tucson 以东约80英里的 US Highway 191 沿线、Willcox Playa 附近，紧邻 Apache 发电站。园区规划九栋单层超级计算大楼，每栋约49.3万平方英尺，全部建成后供电规模最高达6吉瓦，分四期推进、每期约1.5吉瓦。SpaceX 预计该项目将带来约5,500个建筑岗位与约1,000个长期岗位。
电力方面，亚利桑那园区接入电网，由 Sulphur Springs Valley 电力合作社（SSVEC）与亚利桑那电力合作社（AEPCO）供电；SpaceX 将出资约36亿美元升级电网基础设施，并无偿移交 AEPCO，并称 SSVEC 居民用户的电费有望下降10%至40%。园区还将配套24吉瓦时电池储能系统，SpaceX 称其为全美规模最大。用水方面，园区采用干式冷却、不设蒸发喷淋，不消耗工业用水、不新打水井，全部建成后年用水量上限约10英亩英尺，相当于20至30户亚利桑那家庭的年用水量。
两个项目都还需走完地方审批。亚利桑那园区由 SpaceX 关联公司 Tombstone Resources 于10月30日向 Cochise County 提交特别用途许可申请，县规划与分区委员会定于12月9日在 Bisbee 举行公开听证；若获批准，工程最早可于2027年3月开工。德州园区的税收减免协议同日在 Starbase 市委员会审议。
SpaceX 在官方声明中表示：「从 Rio Grande Valley 到 Cochise County，我们建造的不只是超级计算机。我们在创造就业、投资关键基础设施、扩大地方税基，与社区并肩建设一个让当地居民受益的未来。」
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SpaceX to Invest Over $74 Billion in Two Supercomputing Campuses in Texas and Arizona
SpaceX announced on November 12 that it plans to invest more than $74 billion to build two supercomputing campuses, one at Starbase in Cameron County, Texas, and one in Cochise County, Arizona, to train the company's super intelligence (SI) models. The computing capacity will support medical research, emergency response, advanced manufacturing and national security.
At Starbase in Texas's Rio Grande Valley, SpaceX plans to invest more than $24 billion in new supercomputing infrastructure, including an on-site gas-fired power plant; the campus will generate its own electricity rather than draw power from the public grid. The roughly 444-acre site near the Port of Brownsville was transferred from the city of Brownsville to the City of Starbase. SpaceX says the project has already generated more than 3,000 construction jobs and is expected to support more than 500 permanent jobs. The company has also committed $220 million to water and wastewater infrastructure in Brownsville and Cameron County, with $40 million already directed to the Brownsville Public Utilities Board. The Starbase City Commission is scheduled to consider a property tax abatement and economic development agreement for the project on December 9.
In Arizona, SpaceX plans to invest about $50 billion in Cochise County. The roughly 747-acre campus sits along US Highway 191 near Willcox Playa, about 80 miles east of Tucson, next to the Apache Generating Station. Plans call for nine single-story supercompute buildings of about 493,000 square feet each, delivering up to six gigawatts of power at full build-out in four phases of about 1.5 gigawatts each. SpaceX estimates the project will support about 5,500 construction jobs and about 1,000 permanent jobs.
The Arizona campus will connect to the grid through the Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC) and the Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO). SpaceX will fund about $3.6 billion in grid upgrades and transfer them to AEPCO at no cost, and says SSVEC residential members' bills could fall by 10 to 40 percent. The campus will also include a 24 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system, which SpaceX describes as the largest in the United States. The campus will be dry-cooled with no evaporative spray, will use no water for industrial purposes and will drill no new wells; total water use at full build-out is capped at about 10 acre-feet a year, roughly what 20 to 30 Arizona homes use.
Both projects still need local approvals. In Arizona, SpaceX affiliate Tombstone Resources filed a special-use permit application with Cochise County on October 30; the county Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on December 9 in Bisbee, and construction could start as early as March 2027 if the project is approved. The Texas tax agreement goes before the Starbase City Commission the same day.
In its announcement, SpaceX said: "From the Rio Grande Valley, TX to Cochise County, AZ, we're building more than supercomputers. We're creating jobs, investing in critical infrastructure, expanding local tax bases, and working alongside communities to build a future that benefits the people who live there."
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图片来源：图：SpaceX 发布的亚利桑那州 Cochise County 超级计算园区效果图（SpaceX 官网项目页）。 / Image: Rendering of SpaceX's planned supercomputing campus in Cochise County, Arizona (SpaceX project page).
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