Elon Musk flies Seattle to Moffett Field amid xAI supercomputer push

Elon Musk flew from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Moffett Federal Airfield on Monday, June 1, 2026, a 1-hour 41-minute hop in the Gulfstream G550 N272BG. The trip follows a busy stretch of flights between the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and the Bay Area — including a Boeing Field arrival the day before and a quick turnaround through Los Angeles earlier in the afternoon.

The destination offers a clue: Musk lands at Moffett Field the same week that xAI is reportedly negotiating with Silicon Valley data-center operators to secure additional Nvidia GPU clusters, per a Bloomberg report. An expansion near Tesla's engineering office in Palo Alto could help close the compute gap with OpenAI and Anthropic, and sources familiar with the matter told The Information the talks involve potential 10-gigawatt power allocations — a figure that dwarfs typical data-center procurement.

Musk's fleet has logged several hops between Moffett and Van Nuys in the past week, consistent with his pattern of splitting time between Bay Area Tesla meetings and Texas-based SpaceX operations. Monday's routing via Seattle, where Tesla has a parts-distribution hub, suggests a working trip that threaded business across the I-5 corridor before returning to the heart of xAI's infrastructure scramble.