SpaceX Plans $24 Billion Texas Data Center and Gas Plant

SpaceX has spent years building rockets at Starbase. Now it wants to build the power station and the server halls too. A Starbase hearing notice estimates the first phase of a SpaceX computing center and gas-fired plant at $24 billion, Investing.com reported ^[2].

The project would occupy 444 acres within the new city, just east of Brownsville, CRE Daily said ^[1].

How we got here

• Starbase became its own city in 2025 and is home to several hundred SpaceX workers and their families ^[1].
• SpaceX's AI unit reportedly brought in $7.56 billion of sales in the third quarter, up from $813 million a year earlier, GuruFocus said ^[3].
• SpaceX shares rose 5.8% on Monday as the plan surfaced ^[3].
• In September, SpaceX proposed a gas pipeline in Florida to fuel Starship at Cape Canaveral ^[2].

But nothing is approved. Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa campaigned on curbing new data center construction until communities get more protections ^[3]. The notice also left open key details such as power capacity, water use and timing, CRE Daily noted ^[1].

What it means for you

Generating its own power lets a developer skip the grid hookup line that slows most big campuses ^[1]. For landowners and investors near Texas data center corridors, that changes what makes a site valuable: access to gas lines and room for turbines can matter as much as a utility substation. By our math, $24 billion spread across 444 acres is about $54 million an acre of planned investment.

Zoom out

Gas-fired self-supply is becoming the standard Texas playbook for data centers that want to come online fast, CRE Daily said ^[1]. Rising state political pushback is now the main risk to that model.