Elon Musk announced that he will move SpaceX's headquarters from California to Starbase in Texas. This is a town, or rather a complex, that the company has been building for almost 15 years. Meanwhile, X's headquarters will be located in Austin, the state capital of Texas, instead of San Francisco, as it has been so far. In February 2024 Musk re-registers SpaceX from Delaware to Texasthe actual headquarters of the company remained Hawthorne, California.
Elon Musk Moves Headquarters, Clashes with California Over Transgender Students
Elon Musk made the decision to move his headquarters after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the SAFETY Act. This law prohibits teachers from informing parents that a student identifies as transgender. “A lot of families and businesses are going to move out of California because of this law. Who wants to risk the government taking their children away?” – Musk wrote in one of the comments.
“Because of this bill and the many others that preceded it that targeted both families and businesses, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,” Musk wrote. In a follow-up post, he added that X will move to Austin. “I’m tired of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of my building,” the billionaire commented on his own post.
Recall that one of Elon Musk's children is a transgender person. In 2022, after turning 18, she asked the court to change her gender and name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. At the same time, Wilson said that she no longer wants to be associated with her father – we read on CNN.
This is not the first time Elon Musk has moved companies
Elon Musk has been announcing similar moves for years. In 2020, he wanted to move Tesla's headquarters to Texas or Nevada. The reason was the covid restrictions. In 2021, he partially succeeded and Tesla's headquarters is currently located in Austin. At the same time, however, the company was officially registered in Delaware.
Musk decided to change that too, after a Delaware court found that Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation package for running Tesla was too generous. He even did a poll back then asking, “Should Tesla change its headquarters to Texas, where its physical headquarters is located?” 87.1 percent of voters supported the idea.