SpaceX data center pledges 40% power discounts and billions in community benefits
Scobleizer · x · 2026-11-06
Citing SpaceX's Riley Trettel at a Cochise data center meeting, Scoble shared the project's promised community benefits: lifetime 40% residential power discounts for Sulphur Springs co-op members, $53M/year to the SSVEC Foundation, $190M/year in local capital, $3.6B in new power lines funded by SpaceX with zero co-op debt, and $30-100M/year in new property taxes. Scoble's takeaway: data center buildouts face "a lot of anger."
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