SpaceX는 텍사스주 Starbase에 천연가스 발전소와 슈퍼컴퓨팅 시설 건설을 위해 약 240억 달러를 투자할 계획이며, 해당 도시는 이 제안에 대한 표결을 앞두고 있다.

Elon Musk's space company, SpaceX, plans to build a multibillion-dollar natural gas plant and data center at its rocket launch site and company town in Texas.

According to a new public notice reported by Bloomberg and others, the Starbase City Commission is scheduled to meet on December 9 to consider approving a property tax abatement agreement with SpaceX.

SpaceX is looking to develop a gas-fired power plant and supercomputing facility on a 444-acre tract just east of the City of Brownsville, between Boca Chica Boulevard and the Port of Brownsville, in Cameron County. The company could invest up to $24 billion in the project, which would be built out in phases and could include future expansions. Full details on the scope of the project have not been shared.

Starbase, formerly Boca Chica Village or Kopernik Shores, is a city in Cameron County near the mouth of the Rio Grande and adjacent to the U.S. border with Mexico. The area, then known as Boca Chica, was chosen to host a SpaceX rocket launch site in 2014. In 2021, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans to incorporate a new city called Starbase in the area, which was officially incorporated in 2025. Many of the city's roughly 500 residents are SpaceX employees, and Bobby Peden, a SpaceX vice president, currently serves as mayor.

SpaceX's data center and AI division, SpaceXAI (also known as SpaceXSI), operates a cluster of data centers around Memphis, with one in Tennessee and the rest across the state border in Mississippi. These facilities run the company's AI chatbot, Grok, and provide AI cloud services to clients including Anthropic and Google. Musk recently announced two new Mississippi data centers, named Gun Range and Spam. The billionaire claims more than 1GW of capacity in the Memphis cluster, though these claims have been disputed.

The company is also looking to develop a 6GW cluster in Cochise County, Arizona. The project could include up to nine buildings on 747 acres near Willcox Playa, a dry lake 80 miles east of Tucson.

Musk, a high-profile backer of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, is also hoping to build a $20 billion chip factory in Texas, dubbed the TeraFab, to produce silicon for his companies.