SpaceX Seeks Tax Breaks for $24 Billion Starbase Data Center as 750-MW Gas Plant Plan Emerges
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Updated · POLITICO · Nov 10
SpaceX Seeks Tax Breaks for $24 Billion Starbase Data Center as 750-MW Gas Plant Plan Emerges
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Nov 10
Summary
Starbase officials posted a Dec. 9 hearing notice for SpaceX’s request for a property tax abatement and related economic development agreement tied to a $24 billion Texas data center.
The filing says SpaceX wants to build, own and operate a super-compute facility alongside a gas-fired power plant, expanding the project beyond a conventional data center buildout.
A September air-permit application seeks approval for 35 mobile gas-fired turbines in the same area that would generate about 750 megawatts.
Starbase’s three-member city commission will weigh the request, with two commissioners also serving as SpaceX executives.
The subsidy review lands weeks before Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, who has criticized Texas’s data-center construction boom, takes office in January.