Space Exploration Technologies Corporation is seeking economic incentives from the city of Starbase, Texas, where Elon Musk is building a natural gas-fired power plant and a data center for his spaceport, according to a public hearing in early December.
Starbase city commissioners, some of whom are also SpaceX employees, are hosting a public hearing on the topic on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. at city hall. The property tax abatement deal on the table would enable SpaceX to leverage the Cameron County Enterprise Zone, where the company describes constructing a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility.
The estimated value of the project is $24 billion, and it would be built in phases.
Trinity Consultants recently filed a permit application with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on behalf of SpaceX for a new air-pollution source. The power plant would have 35 natural gas turbines capable of producing 748 megawatts of power.
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she's worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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