SpaceX Plans $24B Gas Plant and Supercomputing Facility at Texas Starbase

The scale of SpaceX's proposed self-owned generation and compute capacity signals that launch and AI infrastructure are converging on the same power budget — a notable shift for a region not previously associated with data-center buildout. The binding constraint here is local: the Starbase City Commission's review of tax abatements and an economic development agreement determines whether the project's economics hold. Whether the abatement package clears the December 10 hearing, and how the multi-phase expansion is sequenced afterward, is the open question.