Tech mogul Elon Musk introduced Tuesday afternoon that he can be transferring the headquarters of each his social media firm X and SpaceX to Texas in response to a brand new California legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Musk made the announcement in a pair of posts to the social media platform previously often known as Twitter at round 12:13 p.m. and 12:30 p.m., saying that SpaceX can be transferring its headquarters from Hawthorne to Starbase, Texas, whereas X would relocate its headquarters from San Francisco to the tech hub of Austin.
“Have had sufficient of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts simply to get out and in of the constructing,” Musk added in a separate submit, apparently referring to points within the neighborhood surrounding the X headquarters within the metropolis’s mid-Market Avenue space.
Musk stated the “ultimate straw” in his resolution was a brand new California legislation that bans college districts from passing insurance policies requiring faculties to inform mother and father if their youngster asks to alter their gender identification.
“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom a few 12 months in the past that legal guidelines of this nature would power households and firms to go away California to guard their kids,” Musk wrote in one other submit on X.
The posts by Musk didn’t go unnoticed. Newsom’s replied was a single sentence — “You bent the knee.” — together with a picture of a tweet then President Trump posted a few Musk go to to the White Home the place Trump famous he may have advised Musk to drop to his knees and beg “and he would have completed it.”
State Senator Scott Wiener additionally had a response.
“California actually made you with taxpayer subsidies & as a result of it is the perfect place round,” he stated in a retweet of one in all Musk’s posts. “Will this be a pretend mood tantrum transfer identical to Tesla’s pretend “transfer” to Texas?”
LGBTQ rights advocates have been additionally fast to criticize Musk’s newest transfer.
“Simply because he is wealthy does not imply he even understands the problems he’s making feedback about,” stated Gabrielle Antolovich, Director of the Billy DeFrank Heart in San Jose.
Antolovich stated she lived by means of the expertise of her college notifying her mother and father that she was interested in girls.
“They did not perceive what was occurring, what horrible factor had I completed? All of those fights occurred in my household and it was none of their enterprise coming to my mother and father with that,” she stated.
Musk has already moved the company headquarters of his electrical automobile firm Tesla to Austin from Palo Alto in 2021, although the corporate nonetheless has a big manufacturing unit in Fremont that has expanded since that transfer.
Musk has additionally beforehand stated that he moved his non-public residence from California to Texas.
The announcement about X comes lower than two years after Musk took cost of the previous Twitter social media platform in a $44 billion deal and fired its prime executives. Musk additionally fired, laid off, or in any other case misplaced nearly all of its workforce together with engineers, content material moderators, and executives answerable for making guidelines and imposing them.
In June 2023, Musk rebranded the platform as X and added a shiny, flashing X emblem to the highest of the San Francisco constructing which homes its workplaces. It was eliminated inside days after space residents complained and town decided there was no allow obtained for the constructing signage.
