SpaceX’s 20% pay rise for temporary relocation: How Elon Musk’s AI data centre expansion is driving hiring needs

Elon Musk-led SpaceX is offering employees a 20% pay premium to relocate temporarily to Memphis, Tennessee, or Southaven, Mississippi, for six weeks as the company accelerates the expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, according to a report by Business Insider.

The incentive is aimed at staffing the expansion of the company’s Colossus supercomputer infrastructure, as demand for computing capacity grows.