SpaceX and X Headquarters Moving from San Francisco to Austin Texas

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Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. Elon also said he will be moving the 𝕏 headquarters out of San Francisco California to Austin Texas.

32 thoughts on “SpaceX and X Headquarters Moving from San Francisco to Austin Texas”

  1. I’ve met a decent number of SpaceX employees here in CA and the majority would like to leave CA.

  2. California decides teachers don’t have to tattle on their students. Texas decides you can’t have an abortion, even if you might die from giving birth. And Musk is outraged by California?

    • California empowers teachers to advise students on intimate, personal, and very adult decisions regarding sex and gender, while cutting parents out of the conversation. Texas decides you cannot murder a child in the womb, no matter the personal benefit. And Musk is outraged at California.

      You’re D–n right.

        • There is absolutely no way that you are not aware that there are exceptions for saving the life of the mother. None.

          • There is no way you don’t know this:

            May 31 (Reuters) – Texas’ highest court on Friday refused to ensure that doctors in the U.S. state are not prosecuted for abortions they believe are necessary in medically complicated pregnancies, rejecting a lawsuit by 22 patients and physicians.

      • Parents rarely talk to their kids about sex and some just push some religious garbage on them. Sex education is best taught in schools that use facts and encourage questions. The government of Texas is just another intrusive far right bunch that claims freedom but then controls everything they don’t like. For business, Texas may be better than California but for personal freedom it is not. I have lived in both CA and TX.

      • Regardless, he has no communication with his daughter because of her decisions. Such great conservative family values abandoning your child.

        • You are assuming that cutting off communication was 1.) A unilateral decision by Elon, and 2.) not a consequence interpersonal conflict where Elon’s position has any validity.

          You are also implying that conservative ‘family values’ are naturally coercive, when such action would be a strange fit for an ideology whose theological wing stresses ‘unconditional love’ as one of it’s core ideals to aspire to.

          What would the fallout be if you felt that your child was basing their entire identity on gaslighting and deception, and they demanded that you affirm it as true?

        • Technically true. He has no communication with her because of her decision to cut off all contact with him, because she decided she’s a communist and opposes everything he stands for.

          This is according to the recent biography. It says it’s a source of deep pain for Musk and he’s reached out to her repeatedly.

  4. Everything is becoming political.
    CEOs used to be smart and largely stay out of politics.
    How companies present themselves is becoming more political.
    What you buy is political.
    Buying an EV is now seen as a political choice!?!?
    Musk may be positioning himself for a future political career, but meanwhile if he polarises his potential customers his businesses could lose out. Or maybe conservatives will all start buying EVs.

    • My guess is Elon’s name is too inflated and politically valuable now for him to stay out of politics. Maybe that has been the plan all along. And it could indeed cause conservatives to buy EVs. But neither the idea of right-wing, or the left-wing are fixed forever, probably everybody in the political business accepts it.

    • Sadly, you can’t stay out of politics if politics won’t stay out of you. Bill Gates was taught that lesson pretty dramatically, and Musk got enrolled in that class, too, when Biden took office and all the regulatory agencies turned hostile overnight.

      The Democrats basically told him, “You’re with us or against us. There is no neutral.”, and he’s replied, “Against, then.”

  5. Looks to me like the liberal elitists will have California more-or-less all to themselves, with the remaining middle class their serfs. Not so sure that will be economically viable over the long run.

    • Looks to me like all the other SoCal aerospace companies are about to feast on SpaceX employees who refuse to move to Texas.

  6. California is beautiful. Especially Southern California. Everything equal, I’d prefer to live in California.

    Texas’ climate is hot, and the scenery is not nearly as attractive as California’s. Because the wealth here is new, we are still struggling to expand our infrastructure to accommodate the influx of undocumented migrants (in the millions) and out-of-state transplants.

    Having said that, aside from pursuing my beautiful wife (together for 40 years), raising my family here has been the smartest thing I’ve done.

    To those moving to Austin, consider moving to the far south, to the San Marcos Hill country. Lots to do – especially in the New Braunfels area – and its a great place to raise your kids. (I’d recommend not living in the core city, though. Too much crime and gridlock.)

  7. It’s a shame about how unending politics affects the tech industry and how Elon and the other billionaire ilk insist on their epic crusades. Though, I don’t doubt that much regulation strangles their businesses and industrial dreams, creating less opportunity for all; but at a certain level you have to believe that it is about Ego and how they want to be remembered and what social order they want to create in their wake – which is less noble. In an ideal world, we don’t need heroes; technology should be incremental, unrelenting, and followed by a solid foundation of money, talent, and opportunity – which is nothing special; no huge sacrifices, no one-in-a-million geniuses, no secret underground research bunkers — just XEROX-PARC-type solid progress across each department, company, industry, and region (like AI, actually – it has a huge following with multiple players all contributing something).

    That being said, it does appear appropriate that Elon move to the sandbox appropriate to his reasonable ambitions. The US is politically splintering and it may be those zones of lesser regulation that prosper – to which any can move to or from. And it is becoming increasingly obvious that Bleeding-Heart Liberal values will necessarily lead to stagnation, conflict, inappropriate financial redistribution, arbitrary regulatory rulings, weaponizing of trite environment and soclal values, and just a mass clogging of personal ambition and self-actualization. Major shifts of population from blue to red and vice versa are anticipated – will the needy, delicate, and others that seek such validation under their virtue signalling disproportionately glom into the CAs, WAs, and metropolitan areas – never happy, always complaing, never satisified, but with little vision or effort to show for their petty ambitions. May You Live in Interesting Times (often interpreted as a curse).

    • Elon’s not a genius or a hero, he is just a manager with some dedication, ideas and a media super-star. If some people in the media/politics do have a demand for creating a right-wing modernizing “genius” persona out of him, fitting the current world, I guess it is not in his interest to oppose it.

      • He is singularly responsible for the creation of SpaceX, singularly responsible for the survival of both via the risk of his entire fortune to the lights on for both in December of 2008, and the architect of the corporate structure and interrelationship of both, as well as with his other ventures. He personally interviewed every hire( including Shotwell) for the first several years of SpaceX’s existence, and I suspect the same was true for Tesla; and he is the architect of the long term vision for all of his major ventures.

        Given the current status of Tesla, and the absolute dominance of SpaceX, that definitely puts a lot of credit squarely on his shoulders.

        • He can take credit for hiring some good people initially, but probably not all of it. It is not a sign of his genius, rather, sign of degree of ossification of the rest of the space sector. Which still makes me his big fan, even if I don’t believe in anyone being a superhero.

  8. A little honesty Elon. Workers have less rights in Texas, and you can make more money off of that. Oh incidentally, do you remember when you moved Tesla’s engineering and R&D to Texas? You had to come scurrying back to California. None of your engineers wanted to move, and you couldn’t find any local talent. I think you’ll find the California aerospace engineering block holds the same thoughts.

    • California is a regulatory cesspool. Less about workers’ rights and more about too much regulation and government nonsense.
      He is jumping that sinking ship, like so many others.

      • Lack of regulations is doing wonders for the Texas utilities industry, isn’t it? Third world status has already been achieved. You can’t be for law and order if you allow big business to run rampant, abuse people and not be held liable for their crimes and abuses.

    • Yeah, my company merged and wanted some staff to move.
      Only 1 in 5 moved, the rest resigned, both company took losses the following years.

    • A reminder. Toyota pulled the same thing when they moved some paper pushing operations to Tennessee. They had literally no takers, and that’s not an exaggeration.

  9. That is 13000 people.
    How many of them will need to move to keep Space-X working at current level?

    • Uh, no it isn’t 13,000 people.
      13,000 people were for SpaceX, yes.
      But you already have several thousand ALREADY in Texas. At McGregor, Starbase, and Starlink factory in Bastrop

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