Riley Trettel (Energy & Data Center Development at SpaceX) in yesterdays Cochise Data Center meeting. He claims the project will deliver up to: - 40% off residential power bills for Sulphur Springs members, for the life of the project - $53 million a year to the SSVEC Foundation, for education and the community - $190 million a year in extra capital for Sulphur Springs, for projects or back to members - $200 million a year for AEPCO and its members. About $100 million of that for Sulphur Springs - $3.6 billion in new power lines, paid by SpaceX and given to the co-op. The co-op takes on no debt - $30 to $100 million a year in new property tax, and a 20% cut in everyone else's county property taxes - $250 million, one time, in sales tax. He said it could pay off the jail bond and fund the sheriff, fire districts, and the hospital - $50 billion invested in the project - 1,000 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs - No industrial water. Water for staff and maintenance about equal to 20–30 homes a year - No gas turbines and no power plant on the site. The computers buy power from the co-op grid - Dark-sky lighting, pointed at the ground - Cooling equipment more than 1,500 feet from any neighboring property line or public road This project is clearly extremely positive for the area.

The next SpaceX datacenter will be in Cochise Arizona. ~6 GW spread over 9 buildings. > No industrial water use. > No gas turbines and no on-site power generation. > ~3 miles away from the nearest homes

In a comment to the FAA, SpaceX says it wants to launch 10,000 times per year. The FAA asked for input on where to build new spaceports and how to give rocket launches priority in US airspace. They're preparing for 10,000 launches a year by 2035. SpaceX replied that rockets aren't the bottleneck anymore, the FAA's outdated air traffic processes are. They created their own airspace tool (Cleared) that most major US airlines already get for free. They also noted that Starbase Louisiana is designed for ~30 launches and reentries PER DAY (!!)

Holy shit this is real! And I can't wait until it becomes "normal" like how Falcon 9 now flies them so often that literally nobody cares anymore. Weird way to think about it but that is the goal.

This is actually fucking insane. This was made with AI And some people still think it won't be able to make highly detailed 3D renders of Starship that are 10x more accurate than what humans can do. Lol

Is it weird that I want to meet people like this? I want to see what they are. How can someone be this dumb?? Does this person genuinely think a company with hundreds of satellites currently in orbit doesn't understand thermal management? What?