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SpaceX Offers Half-Price Starlink to Memphis Homes Near Colossus

June 30, 2026 at 14:22 EDT

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On June 30, 2026, SpaceX began offering a 50% discount on the monthly fee of its Starlink Residential plan for eligible addresses in the Memphis, Tennessee area, home to xAI's large Colossus data center. New customers also get the hardware setup fee waived, with the company framing the move as giving back to the community around Colossus.

Memphis · Starlink × xAI Colossus

SpaceX Halves Starlink Fees for Neighbors Near Its Memphis AI Supercomputer

A limited-time regional promotion cuts the monthly Residential fee 50% — and waives the hardware kit for new customers — for addresses around the Colossus data center, framed as "giving back to the community."

50%

off the monthly Residential plan for eligible addresses

upfront hardware kit cost for new customers

covered areas: Memphis, Collierville, parts of Southaven

The compute that surrounds these homes

Colossus runs at vast scale — and one customer alone is reported to pay a near-billion-dollar monthly bill for xAI compute capacity.

~200,000

NVIDIA H100 GPUs in Colossus

~$920M

reported monthly compute bill (Google → xAI)

Built in 2024 on a former Electrolux factory site; among the world's largest AI training systems.

How the discount works

Applies automatically at qualifying service addresses — no special action needed.
Both existing and new subscribers get the 50% monthly discount.
New customers additionally have their upfront kit cost waived.
Limited-time regional offer — end date undisclosed; standard specs unchanged.

Seen as a give-back

Welcomed by many as a tangible community benefit tied to AI infrastructure siting — using SpaceX's own satellite asset to reach residents directly.

Seen as PR

Others call it relationship management. Residents' core concerns — turbine air pollution and how tax revenue is used — remain. Real uptake will decide if it's meaningful.

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