SpaceX offers employees 20% extra pay to help bring its Memphis supercomputers online
SpaceX is offering employees a 20% salary bump and bonus potential to volunteer for a six-week assignment building out its massive supercomputer data centers in Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi. CEO Elon Musk has reportedly been spending extensive time on-site to oversee the critical infrastructure project.
Why it matters
As the demand for AI compute infrastructure surges, tech companies are mobilizing internal resources and pushing aggressive labor strategies to rapidly scale up data center operations.
Elon Musk has previously said he was living in an Airstream trailer on the Memphis site. Bloomberg/Getty Images SpaceX is offering employees a 20% pay bump to volunteer to help build its data centers in Memphis. The company is looking for "leaders" who can "remove blockers", according to emails seen by BI. Elon Musk said on Tuesday he often spends "four days a week" in Memphis working on SpaceX's data center buildout. SpaceX is offering employees a pay bump to temporarily move to Memphis and help build its data centers. Elon Musk's rocket company is giving employees a 20% pay increase if they volunteer to spend six weeks assisting its critical supercomputer buildout , according to an email seen by Business Insider.
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