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It's extremely funny watching big tech companies relocated to Texas because of "deregulation" (or in Elon Musk's case, because he's a big whiny baby), only to l
by RIMR 2y ago
It's extremely funny watching big tech companies relocated to Texas because of "deregulation" (or in Elon Musk's case, because he's a big whiny baby), only to learn that red states still love regulation and hate big tech more than blue states.
Elon learned this lesson the hard way moving Tesla's HQ from CA to TX, and then back to CA. Now he's doing it again with SpaceX.
Texas is the absolute last place I would headquarter a business if I cared about its future.
- tick_tock_tick 2y agoIsn't Texas basically tied with New York and CA for fortune 500 companies? It really seems like a non issue for them. > Now he's doing it again with SpaceX. There test site and critical infrastructure is all in Texas so this one at-least makes sense unlike the Tesla one.
- harmmonica 2y agoDo you have a source for Tesla moving its HQ back to CA? I can't seem to find that online. Maybe you mean Tesla engineering? I'm admittedly not sure what that means vs Tesla overall, but it sounds like only the engineering moved back, not the overall company. Not trying to nitpick; generally want to know if the actual HQ of the company moved back.
- engineer_22 2y agoI have not seen any indication SpaceX or Tesla plan to relocate back to California. On the contrary they only recently discussed moving SpaceX to Texas. Is there new news I missed?
- RIMR 2y agoHe moved Tesla Engineering from CA to TX to CA, first citing that California over-regulates, and later citing that moving to Texas was a mistake due to the power grid issues. Now he's moving SpaceX from CA to TX, citing that California wouldn't hand over tons of healthcare data on transgender people to Texas authorities. This has nothing to do with SpaceX's actually business (just culture war nonsense), and the power grid problem isn't resolved in the slightest (it will probably get worse), so I assume that he'll be retracting that decision at some point and moving back to CA where the electricity that he needs to run his business is delivered with reliability greater than the privatized mismanaged Texas grid that deliberately refuses to peer with other state's grids (giving them no failover options outside of the state of Texas).
- dmitrygr 2y ago> Elon learned this lesson the hard way moving Tesla's HQ from CA to TX, and then back to CA It is probably unwise to make shit up and state it as a fact online. There is no evidence of Tesla moving back to California nor any reason to expect it.