Elon Musk plans to move X, SpaceX HQs to Texas

[Neil Narayan]

Elon Musk's Austin empire is about to grow a lot more.

The enigmatic serial entrepreneur and world's richest man said July 16 on X that he will move X's headquarters from San Francisco to Austin. He also said that he will move Space Exploration Technologies Corp. from Hawthorne to its Starbase in South Texas where it is developing plans to one day send humans to Mars.

The move further cements Musk's influence on the Austin area and, more broadly, the state of Texas.