The story behind the cartoon
Public records appear to show SpaceX building a "Starbase supercomputer" in Texas, The Information reported on Saturday, and the election of Gina Hinojosa as governor could delay the company's data-center plans. Hinojosa, the first Democrat elected Texas governor since 1990, defeated Gov. Greg Abbott in Tuesday's election.
On Thursday, Hinojosa said she asked the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to take no action on a possible sale of about 1,300 acres of public land, including Boca Chica State Park, to SpaceX until she takes office in January. The department had been considering selling the land so SpaceX could expand its Starbase launch site, and the item was removed from the commission's agenda at her request.
The pause lands on a buildout that is already financed: SpaceX committed in late October to a roughly $40 billion master finance lease to buy about $47.3 billion of Nvidia Rubin chips, with Goldman Sachs now syndicating slices of the debt to Wall Street buyers. Hinojosa has also vowed to block new data-center approvals until the legislature passes stronger rules on water, electricity costs, and local control, and Deutsche Bank analysts wrote this week that SpaceX's Texas compute capacity could face delays.
The joke is the scale mismatch: Musk proudly presents a supercomputer the size of a rocket, on wheels, on a public beach — while the new governor plants a STOP sign in front of it that says NOT FOR SALE, and a sea turtle crosses the sand underneath, unimpressed.
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