SpaceX seeks volunteers for Memphis

SpaceX is offering employees a twenty percent pay increase to temporarily move to Memphis, Tennessee or Southaven, Mississippi and help build its data centers.

Six weeks on site, plus bonuses

Volunteers must spend six weeks on-site assisting the supercomputer buildout. They will receive the twenty percent premium on base salary or hourly rate and be eligible for bonuses tied to program success.

Who can apply and what matters

Applicants do not need to be managers already. Construction experience is a plus. Volunteers must be in good performance standing with more than one year of tenure preferred. Drive matters most.

“drive matters most”

Part of SpaceX's surge strategy

SpaceX calls this reallocation of employees a surge, a tactic it uses to divert workers and resources to mission-critical projects.

AI revenue now half of quarterly income

SpaceX's compute business, leasing supercomputers to companies including Anthropic and Google, generated more than seven billion dollars in AI revenue, nearly half the company's entire quarterly revenue.

Musk spending most time in Memphis

CEO Elon Musk told investors he is spending most of his time in Memphis, often four days a week, as SpaceX pushes toward a target of bringing an extra ten gigawatts of compute online by…

“I've been spending, personally, a lot of my time in Memphis, often four days a week”

Demand outpacing supply for compute

Musk said SpaceX is being hounded relentlessly by companies wanting to rent its compute capacity. The company could have rented it out several times over, indicating demand far exceeds current supply.

“hounded relentlessly”