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The Multimillionaire Elon Musk succeeded on Saturday his bet to create a small town in Texas around the industrial complex of his company SpaceX. The 283 people called to rule, employees or people related to the site, voted yes to almost unanimity.
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04 May 2025 – 04:48
(Keystone-ATS) They had until 3:00 am on Sunday (time in Switzerland) to approve the transformation of Starbase, a 4 km2 coastal land on the Mexican border, in full full municipality. Almost 100% of the voters approved the project and a senior manager in SpaceX will be the mayor of this commune renamed “Starbase”.
‘Starbase, Au Texas […] is now a real municipality, “exclaimed the richest man in the world and ally of American president Donald Trump, on his social network X.
The creation of this city has been a rare success lately for Elon Musk, which has been invested in the Dogee commission charged by the White House to slar in public spending, but which has not fulfilled, and by far, its objectives of clear cuts. He is also faced with great difficulties with his Tesla automotive business and said that he would gradually return to his business.
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SpaceX installed its industrial complex in Boca Chica Bay, a coastal wetland, bordered by the Rio Grande and natural areas, to carry out rocket tests and launches. The site has been operational since 2019.
Elon Musk’s project to make a city “will only cause more environmental destruction in the region,” said before the Bekah Hinojosa vote, co -founder of a local environment for the environment.
“There will be more illegal discharges. They will increase their dangerous rocket operations and cause more seismic activity that will shake our homes and destroy more natural habitats, ”she anticipated.
It was Elon Musk himself, who offered the name of Starbase after a visit to the site four years ago. The official request to make it a real municipality was filed with local Texas local authorities, a state led by the Republicans, in December, after Donald Trump’s victory in the American presidential election.
The space agency has argued that it already ensures the management of infrastructure, including roads, and health or education services. She promised that the creation of the city would not question its efforts to reduce its environmental impact.
