BREAKING: SpaceX gets approval for 444 acres near the Port of Brownsville, clearing the way for a major expansion.
The city also approved a major infrastructure agreement with SpaceX:
• Up to $220 million for regional water and wastewater projects
• An initial $40 million escrow contribution
• Six additional quarterly payments of $30 million each
• Projects capable of adding around 18 million gallons of water supply per day
• Funding for water reuse, wastewater reclamation and expansion of the Southmost Regional Water Authority plant
This is much bigger than a land deal. SpaceX is helping build critical infrastructure that could strengthen South Texas for generations.
@bryan_johnson My son wants to work with you. He’s 14 and wants to study biochemical engineering in order to better “understand cells”. He was intrigued by “don’t die”.
Elon Musk just announced a major strategic pivot for @SpaceX: the company is officially shifting its primary focus to building a "self-growing city" on the Moon.
The logic is centered on speed. While Mars missions are restricted by orbital alignments every 26 months, SpaceX can launch to the Moon every 10 days. This allows for much faster iteration and development.
@elonmusk estimates that a lunar city could be achieved in less than 10 years. In contrast, a similar presence on Mars is now projected to take 20 or more years to establish.
Mars remains on the long-term roadmap with work potentially starting in 5 to 7 years, but the immediate priority is now "securing the future of civilization" via the faster lunar route.
🚨🇺🇸 THE MOST BALANCED POLITICAL TAKE CAME FROM AN 18-YEAR-OLD TRUMP
President Trump's granddaughter, Kai Trump:
"Radical left, radical right - people get too extreme.
Social media algorithms push you one way or the other.
If both sides met in the middle, everyone would be happier."
She could've dunked on Kamala.
Could've played to her grandfather's base.
Could've gone full partisan.
Instead she gave a thoughtful critique of political extremism and social media echo chambers.
At 18... with the most famous political last name in America.
"There's no bad blood. It is what it is."
Simple. True. And somehow radical in 2026.
Source: @scubaryan_@LoganPaul@kaitrump
🚨🇺🇸 TESLA CONFIRMS 200 MW DATACENTER AT GIGA TEXAS - ENTIRE FACILITY TRAINS OPTIMUS ROBOTS
Fire alarm permit confirms Tesla's Cortex 2.0 datacenter pulls 200 megawatts. That's enough power to run a small city. Instead it's training humanoid robots.
Construction's happening now at Giga Texas - steel structure standing, roof half complete, operational late 2025.
The facility runs thousands of Nvidia GPUs processing video training for Optimus movement, navigation, manipulation. Same AI platform that runs Tesla's Full Self-Driving.
Elon's bigger plan: bring a terawatt of compute online. That's equivalent to all electrical power produced in America.
For context, his xAI Colossus supercomputer already runs 200,000 Nvidia GPUs. Cortex 2.0 likely matches or exceeds that.
The business model mirrors Tesla's FSD subscriptions - sell the robot, charge for AI updates.
Market potential per Elon: $25 trillion. Tesla's targeting 1,000 Optimus units for internal use in 2025, external sales by 2026.
Here's why 200 MW matters: robotics companies talk about humanoid robots for decades.
Tesla's building infrastructure that rivals nations' power grids to actually train them at scale.
Not demos. Production runs.
Cortex 2.0 isn't speculation anymore. It's steel and concrete going up in Austin right now.
Permit dated December 17.
Source: AI News Detail, Giga Texas permits, @tesla, @elon, @Tesla_Optimus