SpaceX's ~$24B Starbase Power Plan

The City of Starbase, Texas, has posted a notice that its City Commission will meet on 9 December 2026 at 7:00 p.m. at 48491 State Highway 4 to consider a property-tax abatement under Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code and a related economic-development agreement under Chapter 380 of the Texas Local Government Code. The applicant is Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). The notice says SpaceX proposes to construct, own, and operate a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility. Estimated capital investment for the initial phases is approximately $24 billion, and the work may be constructed over multiple phases and include future expansions. The site is an approximately 444-acre tract inside Starbase, in Cameron County, just east of Brownsville between Boca Chica Blvd and the Port of Brownsville, Cameron County Property ID 171887, in the Cameron County Enterprise Zone. The notice does not state the size or length of any abatement, and it gives no generating capacity and no scale for the computing operation. Reuters, on 9 November 2026, and the Texas Tribune, on 10 November 2026, report that building the plant could let SpaceX avoid a years-long wait to connect a project to Texas' main power grid. That grid point is not in the notice. Bloomberg reported the same hearing, the same proposal to construct, own and operate, and the same approximately $24 billion estimate. The Texas Tribune also reports that Brownsville de-annexed the tract earlier in 2026 after SpaceX offered up to $220 million for water and wastewater projects, and that Brownsville's data-center moratorium does not cover land now inside Starbase. This is a plan the city will consider. It is not a completed project.