After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?

"Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now."

The short version

• Following his public disputes with California authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk personally moved to Texas, outside of Austin, in 2020.
• Over the next six years, he doubled down on the Lone Star State.
• In 2021, Musk increasingly focused the Starship program in South Texas, urging SpaceX employees to move there and work on the company’s future.

What happened

In March of that year, he began using the name Starbase to describe the production and launch facilities near the Rio Grande River. In 2023, he built a massive factory east of Austin to manufacture customer terminals and other electronics for the Starlink program.

Why it matters

In July 2024, he announced that SpaceX would relocate its corporate headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.

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