McALLEN — SpaceX is planning to build a $24 billion data center and power plant just outside of Brownsville on property that the city had just de-annexed earlier this year at the company’s request, circumventing Brownsville’s data center moratorium that went into effect last week.
On Monday, the city of Starbase, which later annexed land where the project will be built into their city limits, notified the public that SpaceX is building a $24 billion “gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility.”
The $24 billion investment is expected to cover the initial phases of the project which could include future expansions, according to the Monday notice which stated that the Starbase city commissioners are scheduled to hold a public hearing in December in which they will consider tax breaks for the project…