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

It isn't clear how much immediate day-to-day difference this would make to SpaceX. Company leadership moved to Texas some time ago. Production of Starlink user terminals was already moving to Austin/Bastrop (with component production possibly migrating to other countries) and Hawthorne Raptor production was likely being migrated back to Boca. Hawthorne mostly hosted development support for legacy products like Falcon and Dragon with the expectation that these offices would close when these products are no longer being offered. Starship software development will probably eventually be migrated to Boca and other projects will likely follow.

It probably makes sense for the business to move to a venue with a more favorable regulatory environment. The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity.

I'm surprised it took this long, given how much beef Musk seems to have with California.

That said, it's not clear from the article whether they're keeping the former-Twitter building as an office in any capacity, or if SF-based employees will simply be asked to relocate to Austin.

Not really clear who is actually moving here but seems like an insanely bad idea if it's actually a remarkable amount of the engineers that do the work.

No one will want to move, the very best will have the strongest ability to pivot into a new gig, and effectively he'd just be 1) culling many of the most quality workers out of the company and 2) massively losing institutional memory.

So we can expect massive outages every summer and winter as Texas catches fire and freezes? Good to know.

I loathe that my hometown is now filled with these alt-right rich guys escaping big scary California for freedumb loving Texass. Alex Jones was always like Austins creepy drunk uncle we ignored but now they're all bringing their friends, so we've got Joe Rogan and his idiot crew of man children cringe-comedy comedian sexuxal predator pricks bringing all THEIR idiot friends, like Elon Musk, Brendan Schaub now has a Texas tattoo and he's never even lived there, but Oh Joe! Gotta be near the rocketship and his new comedy club on the worst and most cliche street in Austin that literally nobody FROM Austin would ever want their business on.

I love Austin. I despise the State of Texas. I've lived in every major city in TX for years and these guys would absolutely hate every single other city. They like Texas because they're rich guys on a lake in West Austin. They don't have to deal with their ballot boxes being removed to the point that University of Texas, a school with ~80kish students only has ONE PLACE TO VOTE. Actually, I bet Joe would like Dallas a lot more than Austin, he seems like a Vegas type and Austin is still such a small city. Barely more entertaining than Nashville.

I feel so bad for the people who are going to be forced to move. The job market is terrible right now, at least on the SWE end. No idea about manufacturing, etc.

And of course he wouldn't let anyone work remote.

Oh well, I finally gave up on Texas ever improving and left in 2020. Thank god I did. Living in Colorado I feel like my government treats me like an adult.

At least Matthew Mccounaghey balances a bit of it out. Wish he'd have run for Governor, he has enough Texan name recognition and adornment to get past not having (R) on his ballot. Alright, alright alright.

Have to wonder if X will be next? I've heard rumblings it might happen and there are rumors the SF headquarters space is quietly being marketed. I think it would be possibly be good to move out of SF, but a mistake not to stay in the Valley.