Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX, X headquarters from California to Texas

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving nan office of SpaceX and societal media institution X to Texas from California.

Musk posted connected X Tuesday that he plans connected moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to nan company’s rocket motorboat tract dubbed Starbase successful Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco.

He called a caller rule signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that bars schoolhouse districts from requiring unit to notify parents of their child’s gender recognition alteration nan “final straw.”

“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom astir a twelvemonth agone that laws of this quality would unit families and companies to time off California to protect their children,” Musk wrote.

Tesla, wherever Musk is CEO, moved its firm office to Austin from Palo Alto, California successful 2021.

Musk has besides said that he has moved his residence from California to Texas, wherever location is nary authorities individual income tax.

SpaceX builds and launches its monolithic Starship rockets from nan confederate extremity of Texas astatine Boca Chica Beach, adjacent nan Mexican separator astatine a tract called Starbase. The company’s smaller Falcon 9 rockets return disconnected from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California.

It’s conscionable beneath South Padre Island, and astir 20 miles from Brownsville.