Musk to move firms out of California

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 18, 2024 12:15 am

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Elon Musk on Tuesday said he will move the headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas after a California law blocked schools from forcing teachers to notify parents about changes to a student's gender identity.

'This is the final straw,' Musk said on X a day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill that fired up the already fraught culture wars in a tumultuous US election year.

RELOCATING A pedestrian walks past the Falcon 9 Booster at SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on July 16, 2024. Elon Musk on July 16 said he will move the headquarters of his companies SpaceX and X from California to Texas over a transgender law in the former. AFP PHOTO

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