Elon Musk plans to relocate X and SpaceX’s headquarters from California to Texas. “Because of this law and many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas,” Musk tweeted, referencing California’s SAFETY Act (AB1955).
Signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, the act prevents schools from enforcing rules that require teachers to disclose a student’s gender identity without their permission and prohibits retaliation against teachers who refuse to out a student, reports the Los Angeles Times.
And 𝕏 HQ will move to Austin https://t.co/LUDfLEsztj
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
Musk also tweeted that X, currently headquartered in San Francisco, “will move to Austin.” Last year, a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed Musk’s plans to build his own community outside Austin called Snailbrook. He also plans to open a university in Austin.
Musk has recently moved other businesses. After a Delaware judge struck down his $55 billion pay package in January (later approved by shareholders), Musk filed to move SpaceX’s incorporation from Delaware to Texas. He also relocated Tesla’s headquarters to Texas in 2021 after California health officials shut down his Fremont factory during the COVID pandemic.

