SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk has announced he will move the headquarters of his SpaceX and social media company X from California to Texas.
Musk posted on Twitter on Tuesday that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to the company’s rocket launch site in Texas, called Starbase. X will move from San Francisco to Austin.
He called a new law signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday that bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of a child’s gender change “the final push.”
“I made it clear to Governor Newsom nearly a year ago that this type of legislation would force families and businesses to leave California to protect our children,” Musk wrote.
Tesla, where Musk serves as CEO, moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin in 2021.
Musk also said he moved his residence from California to Texas, which has no state personal income tax.
SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets from a facility called Starbase in Boca Chica Beach, on the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. The company’s smaller Falcon 9 rockets launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California.
It is located just below South Padre Island, about 20 miles from Brownsville.
