Elon Musk has officially moved the headquarters of X (formerly Twitter) to Bastrop, Texas. This small town is about 30 miles east of Austin, making it a strategic location close to other Musk ventures like SpaceX and The Boring Company. The move was confirmed through recent court filings and marks a significant shift from the company’s previous base in California.
Elon Musk ended X's time as a California company and followed through on his promise to bring the social media platform to Texas.
New court filings revealed that X's headquarters are now in Bastrop, Texas, Forbes reports. Musk originally stated that the company would move from San Francisco to Austin. But now, Musk appears to have instead chosen to make X's home base only about 30 miles east of the tech-dominated city where Tesla's headquarters are located.
In Bastrop, the platform formerly known as Twitter joins Musk's other outfits including his tunneling operation The Boring Company and the quickly-expanding operations of SpaceX's satellite company, Starlink.
While the move was spurred by Musk's disagreement with a law California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed banning public schools from outing transgender students to their parents, the change in headquarters has been brewing for some time.
In April, X signed a three-year commercial lease on the Bastrop property, court filings note. A few months later, a real estate firm confirmed that X planned to sublease its 800,000-square-foot office space in San Francisco. That was followed by X closing its San Francisco office on Sept. 13.
Then on Monday, Musk's lawyers asked a judge to change the location of his lawsuit with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who sued Musk in August after his partnership on X was canceled. In addition, a declaration from X's real estate director Nicole Hollander noted the company's headquarters are now in Bastrop, the first official description of the new location.
The address is listed as Building 2 in Hyperloop Plaza, a Musk-focused shopping center with a convenience store known as the Boring Bodega, a hair salon and a pub.
X now seems set on making its Bastrop headquarters a primary office for Central Texas employees. Hollander noted that X will move employees from the company's Austin office to the new Bastrop location. At least some of the employees likely work on the content moderation team, as X shared plans at the start of the year to hire a team of 100 full-time staff at an Austin office to enforce content and safety rules.
Meanwhile, Bay Area employees are working in offices in San Jose and Palo Alto, or from home. The sudden change of headquarters reportedly brought uncertainty for some of the California employees who fear that they will be forced to relocate to Texas.
With this move, Texas now has many of Musk's companies given that SpaceX will also have its headquarters in the Lone Star State. Holdouts include the brain chip implant company known as Neuralink, which moved its headquarters from Fremont, California to Nevada earlier this year and OpenAI challenger xAI.
Elon Musk has confirmed that there is a new location for the headquarters of X which was once known as Twitter, but it’s still here in Texas. Let’s be honest, Musk is fascinating, he is a brilliant person who has made billions of dollars, which is why people love to talk about him and his companies. But where is the new headquarters for X in Texas?
The details were first obtained by Forbes, when they discovered through court documents that executives had filed paperwork to make the location transition. The new location for the headquarters will be in Bastrop, which is not far from Austin.
Other Companies Elon Musk Owns in Texas
Beyond having the headquarters for X located in Bastrop, his SpaceX, the Boring Company, Boring Bodega and a X Safety Team Support Center. The plan is to eventually move the employees currently working in Austin to the new location in Bastrop, no timetable on when that move is going to be made. Currently there are 188 full-time employees on the X payroll in Texas.
Elon Musk Loves Texas
It was back in July when Elon first announced that he wanted to get away from California to move himself and his businesses to Texas. This was after California governor Gavin Newsom created a law that restricted public school districts from making rules that would require parents to notify their kids school if their child identified as transgender.
What do you think about this move? Do you think it will impact the tech landscape in Texas?
Elon Musk announces plans to move SpaceX, X headquarters from California to Texas