FILE – Elon Musk appears at an event in London on Nov. 2, 2023. Musk posted on social media company X on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, Calif., to Starbase, Texas. X will move from San Francisco to Austin. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to move the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X from California to Texas.
Musk posted on X on Tuesday that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to the company's rocket launch site, called Starbase, in Texas. X will move from San Francisco to Austin.
He called a new law signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday that prohibits school districts from requiring their staff to inform parents of their child's change of gender identity “the last straw.”
“I made it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws like this would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote.
Tesla, where Musk is CEO, moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin in 2021.
Musk also stated that he changed his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state income tax.
SpaceX builds and launches its giant Starship rockets at the southern tip of Texas at Boca Chica Beach, near the Mexican border, at a site called Starbase. The company's smaller Falcon 9 rockets launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California.
It is located just below South Padre Island and about 20 miles from Brownsville.
