Musk is moving his businesses out of California and has been critical of San Francisco online, but city officials claim the departure of X won’t have a major impact. Elon Musk is moving X out of its San Francisco headquarters and city officials are claiming not to care. The billionaire announced plans earlier this month that he would take X out of California and move its headquarters to Texas.
Musk said on that he had “no choice” but to move and claimed “it is impossible to operate in San Francisco if you’re processing payments”. He has also been critical of other taxation policies in the city and California for years. Musk may have a different motive for leaving California behind, however.
In July he to posts about state legislation to support LGBT+ students and called it “the final straw”, declaring he would move SpaceX to Texas. “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas,” he said. In response to the move, San Francisco officials gave lukewarm reactions.
City attorney David Chiu claimed he shares the perspective of “most San Franciscans” which is “good riddance”. San Francisco’s chief economist Ted Egan claimed the company’s departure will have little impact due to how much it has shrunk and that “in many respects, they were already gone”. X did not respond to requests from NYT for comment.
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