According to reports, the social media company X (formerly known as Twitter before it was bought by Elon Musk) will close its San Francisco headquarters, and relocate to Texas.
The New York Times obtained an internal email from X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, to its employees stating that workers would be moving to the existing offices in San Jose. The company is also opening an engineering-focused office in Palo Alto.
Yaccarino wrote: “This decision is important for many of you but is right for our company in the long term.”
Musk announced last month that he was moving the headquarters of SpaceX and the company to Austin, the capital city of Texas after California passed legislation prohibiting school districts from requiring teachers to inform parents when a child’s gender identity changes.
Musk wrote at the time on X, “This is the last straw.” SpaceX is moving its headquarters from Hawthorne in California to Starbase in Texas because of this law, and many others before it that attacked both families and businesses.
He added, “And X HQ is moving to Austin.”
California Gavin Newsom (a Democrat) responded to Musk then, saying “You bent your knee,” over the image of a post on social media by former President Trump, with a picture of Musk and him in the White House.
The Times reported that although Musk bought the social media platform by 2022, X hasn’t paid any rent to Shorenstein – the real estate firm managing X’s office building.
