Elon Musk will move the headquarters of his social media platform X (or Twitter, as he’s been known to call it) to Bastrop, Forbes reports. Court filings reveal that Musk’s company has filed paperwork to secure a space in the small town about 35 miles east of Austin, according to the money magazine.
Area media outlets expanded on the story Friday. According to the San Antonio Express-News, “Forbes reports that the company has been updating incorporation documents to show the new Bastrop address, and lawyers for Musk on Monday, September 16, requested that the lawsuit filed against Musk by former CNN anchor Don Lemon be allowed to proceed in the Lone Star State."
Musk and his companies are no stranger to Austin, home to Tesla’s headquarters and its Texas Gigafactory — nor to the Bastrop area, where his various developments include locations of SpaceX, the Boring Company and Boring Bodega, and an X safety support center.
A Musk tweet in July post that stated that he will move the social media platform's headquarters from alifornia to Texas as a result of the recent signing of California's Assembly Bill No. 1955, passed to protect LGBTQ pupils and their parents.
“X has leased the property in Bastrop to be its official headquarters, and it will ultimately move its employees in the Austin office to the new Bastrop location,” X real estate director Nicole Hollander said in a statement, according to Forbes. The documents list a new X address in Building 2 in Musk’s Hyperloop Plaza at 865 FM-1209 in Bastrop, currently a small town with a population of about 10,000.
