Musk gets company town after workers vote to name it 'Starbase'

Voters in a small patch of south Texas have voted to give Elon Musk a town to call his own, creating a city called Starbase in the area where Musk's SpaceX holds rocket launches.

- Nick Robins-Early

A couple of hundred residents of what was previously known as Boca Chica decided to make their unincorporated neighborhoods into a town that will grant them the authority to pass city ordinances.

The ballot, which also named a SpaceX representative as its mayor with 100% of the early vote, was never really in doubt. Most of the 283 eligible voters were SpaceX employees or had connections to the company.

"Starbase, Texas," Musk wrote on X, "is now a real city!"