  We study the minimizer of the electrostatic Born--Infeld energy
\begin{equation*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}1-\sqrt{1-|D v|^2}\
dx-\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\rho v\ dx, \end{equation*} which vanishes at infinity.
We show that the minimizer $u$ is strictly spacelike and it is a weak solution
to \begin{equation*}-\operatorname{div}\Big(\frac{D u}{\sqrt{1-|D
u|^2}}\Big)=\rho,\end{equation*} provided that $\rho$ is in the dual space of
the solution space and $\rho\in L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)$, for some $p>n\geq 3$.
Moreover, we have $u\in C^{1,\alpha}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for some $\alpha\in (0,1)$.
