Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
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South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press.
The election took place following a petition that had gained enough signatures by February to force a vote, in which just 283 people were eligible to participate, according to The Texas Tribune. Last week, an analysis by public journalism collaboration The Texas Newsroom found that three in five of those people were SpaceX employees, and per the Tribune, the city will be led by three people with ties to SpaceX.
Musk, who first posted about starting his very own company town in 2021, declared victory in a post on X before the vote tally was complete last night, saying, “Starbase is now officially a city.” He first posted …read more
