SpaceX: Elon Musk to move HQ from Calif. to Texas [Video]

Social media platform X Corp and rocket company SpaceX will move their headquarters to Texas from California, billionaire Elon Musk, who controls both companies, said on Tuesday.

A new California law that forbids school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents when a child changes gender identity or sexual orientation was one reason for the move, Musk said, calling it the “last straw.”

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“Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies,” Musk said in posts on X explaining the decision.

Musk in February moved SpaceX’s incorporation from Delaware to Texas, after a Delaware judge invalidated his US$56-billion compensation plan at his electric vehicle company Tesla.

SpaceX has a sprawling headquarters just outside Los Angeles where employees build and test rocket engine components, spacecraft and satellites.

Musk in 2021 moved Tesla’s headquarters to Texas, though California remains …