SpaceX计划在两个AI超级计算站点投资740亿美元，包括在亚利桑那州科奇斯县建设一个500亿美元的园区，以及在得克萨斯州Starbase总部附近建设一个包含自有燃气发电厂的240亿美元站点。该公司目前向Anthropic和Google出售算力，但在亚利桑那州面临当地居民的抵制。
SpaceX plans to spend $74B on two AI supercomputing sites: a $50B campus in Cochise County, Arizona, and a $24B site with its own gas power plant near Starbase, Texas. It now sells computing power to Anthropic and Google, but faces local pushback in Arizona.
据彭博社报道，SpaceX计划在两个AI超级计算站点投资740亿美元，其中包括在亚利桑那州新建一个500亿美元的园区。该公司周四在其网站上宣布了这些计划，此前几个月它已发行债券为其AI建设提供资金。
SpaceX plans to spend $74B on two AI supercomputing sites, including a new $50B campus in Arizona, Bloomberg reported. The company announced the plans on its website on Thursday, months after it sold bonds to fund its AI build-out.
另外240亿美元将用于SpaceX位于得克萨斯州Starbase总部附近的一个计算站点。该项目包含一个由SpaceX建设、拥有并运营的燃气发电厂。
The other $24B will go to a computing site near SpaceX’s Starbase headquarters in Texas. That project includes a gas-fired power plant that SpaceX will build, own and run.
这一支出显示，埃隆·马斯克的公司已将业务拓展至火箭之外，其AI部门上季度收入已超过Starlink。SpaceX现在向AI公司出租算力，Anthropic已成为其最大客户，贡献了三分之一的收入。Google也同意每月支付9.2亿美元购买算力。
The spending shows how far Elon Musk’s company has moved beyond rockets, with its AI unit out-earning Starlink last quarter. SpaceX now rents computing power to AI firms, and Anthropic has become its biggest customer, bringing in a third of its revenue. Google has also agreed to pay it $920M a month for computing power.
SpaceX表示，位于亚利桑那州科奇斯县的园区将创造约5500个建筑岗位和1000个长期岗位。得克萨斯州项目已创造3000多个建筑岗位，投运后将雇佣500人。
SpaceX says the Arizona site in Cochise County will create about 5,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent ones. The Texas project has already created more than 3,000 construction jobs and will employ 500 people once it opens.
亚利桑那州园区是否也将使用燃气发电尚不清楚。SpaceX称将与当地电力合作社合作，利用现有可再生能源，并采用干式冷却以避免使用地下水。
It is not clear whether the Arizona campus will also run on gas. SpaceX says it will work with local power co-ops, use existing renewable energy and rely on dry cooling to avoid using groundwater.
当地居民持谨慎态度。当地报纸报道，上周数百名居民在一次会议上就水资源、电费和野生动物问题与SpaceX发生对峙。在密西西比州，已有超过1万名居民加入诉讼，起因是为马斯克数据中心供电的燃气发电厂产生噪音。
Locals are wary. Hundreds of residents confronted SpaceX at a meeting last week over water, power bills and wildlife, a local paper reported. In Mississippi, more than 10,000 residents have joined a lawsuit over noise from a gas power plant that powers Musk’s data centres.