According to the latest estimate from research institution SemiAnalysis, SpaceX has raised its target for data center capacity in 2027 from 10 gigawatts to approximately 13 gigawatts.
What does 13 gigawatts represent? It is roughly equivalent to the total data center capacity that Google has built throughout the period from 1999 to 2026.
SemiAnalysis believes that this project will succeed. They have identified sites with a total capacity of over 9 gigawatts owned by SpaceX, of which 3.6 gigawatts are currently under construction.
What’s truly astonishing is the speed.
A new Colossus 2 site in Mississippi is expected to be completed in about 4 months. Most construction companies in the industry take between 8 and 12 months to complete such projects. In order to address noise complaints and provide housing for the construction workers, Elon Musk is attempting to purchase several hundred houses in the surrounding area.
Even the Starbase in Texas is going to build two data centers.
Behind this computing power lies primarily Grok. After xAI joined forces with SpaceX, satellites, rockets, and various models all began to share the same infrastructure. This expansion in scale enabled the company to obtain both the necessary funding and physical resources to support its continued growth.
However, the timing is somewhat delicate. With the mid-term elections just concluding, it has become clear that American voters are strongly opposed to the construction of data centers in their communities. We will see how much resistance such a approach will encounter at the local level over the next few months – after all, it takes four months to build just one data center, and hundreds of residential homes will have to be demolished in the process.