Yuck. He could have just used some lame excuse like lower taxes or less business regulations or whatever and I would have just shrugged and said, eh I guess it makes sense what with the enormous facility they’ve built down there. But no, he had to make this about politics.
Good riddance he should just move already. He’s been saying this since 2020, from what I understand a good portion of spacex is already in Southern Texas, might as well move the HQ as well. As for X? it doesn’t really matter where it is HQ’d anymore and moving it out of cali would lower its legal obligations with privacy and security, plus X is not like how it used to be, it has transfered into enthusiast platform that has a specific purpose instead of a general platform everyone uses, not to mention that it has bled most of it’s advertisers dry and is trying to make the graphs green despite that. This is the smart business move, It would likely be cheaper in the long run to move there due to lower regulation, I wouldn’t see any other outcome. I find it super sleazy he’s claiming “politics” as the reason though
X is an “enthusiast platform”? It’s a pro-Putin, right-wing propaganda machine with vestiges of its former “glory.”
It’s not a smart business move because of the lower taxes and regulatory burdens. Texas is in the bottom 10 states for Quality of Life.
Plenty of other companies are discovering that moving to Texas doesn’t work because employees don’t want to move there. Nobody wants $1000+ “freedom” electric bills.
Unless they’ve bought into the whole abusive “trad wife” bs, Texas is legally very misogynistic.
The professional employees at SpaceX can find work at other companies if they don’t want to move.
Time for SpaceX to join the list of good companies that Elon has turned into jokes.