SpaceX plans a $24 billion power and computing complex at Starbase in South Texas, Reuters reported. The estimate covers initial phases of a proposed gas-fired plant and computing project in Cameron County.
Reuters first reported the proposal. A separate Texas environmental registry entry lists SpaceX’s Boca Chica Facility air registration 185303 as pending; that filing does not approve the proposed plant or establish its price.
From the source record
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Boca Chica Facility, air registration 185303, pending.Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Central Registry ↗
A comparison close to home
Guadalupe County commissioners approved CloudBurst’s development and tax-abatement agreements on April 21, 2026, each by a 3–2 vote. Jacqueline Ott and Stephen Germann voted against both agreements, according to the county minutes. Those approvals concern a different data-center project.
The county’s CloudBurst tax-abatement notice estimated $10 billion for buildings, equipment and infrastructure in Guadalupe County.
For scale, Guadalupe County’s separate $10 billion CloudBurst estimate equals about $153,000 per county household; it is project investment, not a household bill. Guadalupe.News divided the county’s estimate by 65,424 households in the Census ACS 2020–24 estimate.
What comes next
The Texas Tribune reported Tuesday that a hearing on a proposed Starbase tax break is planned for December. That hearing and the requested city agreements are the next decisions to watch; readers can inspect the current state registration while those decisions remain pending.