SpaceX plans $24B gas plant and data center at Starbase, Texas
SpaceX is proposing a $24B data center with its own gas power plant at Starbase, Texas — a way to skip the grid-connection queue; the city commission takes up a tax abatement on Dec. 9.
Reuters and Bloomberg report that a city public-hearing notice reveals SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and data center at Starbase, Texas. Estimated capital for the initial phases is $24B, with expansions possible, and SpaceX has applied for a property tax abatement.
The tract is about 444 acres near the Port of Brownsville. Building its own plant could let SpaceX avoid a years-long wait to connect to the Texas grid. The notice gave no generating capacity or compute scale; the 35-turbine, 748MW figures are reported rather than confirmed in the notice.
The city commission will consider the abatement and a development agreement on Dec. 9. Reuters flagged a regulatory risk: the newly elected Texas governor has called for a pause on new data center approvals.
SpaceX bought xAI earlier this year. For Tesla holders, with merger talks under way, it is a gauge of how much the Musk empire is putting into AI infrastructure.
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