Elon Musk Moves X Headquarters from California to Texas

Elon Musk has 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.

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. X's real estate director, Nicole 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, Calif., to Nevada earlier this year and OpenAI challenger xAI.

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