Texas instead of California - Musk relocates X and SpaceX headquarters to Texas
Tech-Billionaire Elon Musk shifts the headquarters of his space company SpaceX and the online platform X from California to Texas. Musk cited a California law as the reason, which makes it difficult for schools to inform parents about their children's sexual orientation. Now, the consent of the children is required. Musk called this law the last straw that led to the move at X.
Musk is politically on the right in the United States and has spoken out against the medical care of teenagers who do not identify with their biological gender. According to his biography published last year, this also has a personal history. One of his older children underwent a gender change and no longer wants contact with Musk, as his biographer Walter Isaacson wrote.
SpaceX had its headquarters in Hawthorne in the Greater Los Angeles Area until now - although large parts of the facilities, including the rocket ramps, were already in Texas. The site named Starbase is expected to become the future headquarters of the company.
"Bands of violent drug addicts"
X kept the headquarters in San Francisco for its successor to Twitter - and is now moving to Austin. Musk linked the announcement with a jab at the city, which is seen as in decline in conservative political circles. He had had enough of hiding from "bands of violent drug addicts" just to get into the building, Musk wrote at X. The Tech-Billionaire is also CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla and already moved the company from Palo Alto in the California Silicon Valley to Austin. He was dissatisfied with the lockdowns at the beginning of the Corona Pandemic, which also temporarily paralyzed Tesla's production in its California plant in Fremont. Musk called the restrictions designed to protect people from infection "fascist".
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- Despite moving SpaceX and X's headquarters to Texas, Elon Musk's older child, who underwent a gender change, still maintains distance due to their disagreements. (contains: 'Elon Musk', 'children', 'Texas')
- The new headquarters of SpaceX is expected to be at the Starbase site in Texas, where large parts of the facilities, including the rocket ramps, are already situated. (contains: 'SpaceX', 'Texas', 'Starbase')
- The United States of America's tech billionaire, Elon Musk, criticized a California law that requires parental consent for children's sexual orientation disclosures, citing it as a reason for moving his companies. (contains: 'Elon Musk', 'United States of America', 'California', 'law')
- Musk is now based in Texas with SpaceX and X, having previously identified difficulties in San Francisco, such as dealing with "bands of violent drug addicts," as a frustration. (contains: 'Elon Musk', 'Texas', 'San Francisco')
- Besides relocating SpaceX, Elon Musk also transferred Tesla's headquarters from California's Silicon Valley to Austin, voicing dissatisfaction with lockdowns and calling the COVID-19 restrictions "fascist." (contains: 'Elon Musk', 'Tesla', 'California', 'lockdowns')
