SpaceX has shifted more than 300 engineers from its rocket and Starlink divisions into SpaceXAI’s AI data center operations after an internal volunteer call drew over 1,300 applicants, about four times the number selected. The move forms part of a management shakeup that began in late June 2026, when Wesley Salandro replaced data center team lead Dan Rowland. SpaceXAI currently operates roughly 1.4 gigawatts of computing capacity and aims to exceed 2 gigawatts before the end of 2026, but expansion beyond Memphis has slowed while the company addresses reliability problems at the Colossus campus. The reassigned engineers are working on power and cooling redundancy, stricter testing and the replacement of temporary infrastructure. SpaceXAI generated $2.6 billion in external compute rental revenue in the second quarter of 2026, with Google and Anthropic among the entities working with SpaceX’s computing infrastructure. The company is also targeting an initial ramp-up of satellite production for planned orbital data centers by 2027.