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Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-22:40

Elon Musk adds and continues his challenge to the State of Delaware. The

CEO

of Tesla announced on

Wednesday

that he

has moved

the

headquarters

of

Space

.

Musk turned to X, the social network that he acquired in 2022 for $44 billion, to confirm the transfer of the legal headquarters of the space company. "SpaceX has moved its State of incorporation from Delaware to Texas! If your company is still incorporated in Delaware, I recommend moving to another State as soon as possible," said the businessman on the platform, stating his predilection for Texas.

Already in 2021, he waged a similar battle against California as a result of his confrontation during the pandemic with the governor,

Gavin Newsom.

Musk felt unfairly treated by having to stop production at his factories and moved the electric car company's headquarters to Austin, Texas. Not only that. He left Los Angeles, the city where he had lived for years and seemed to feel at home, in favor of Boca Chica, a small Texas town located a few miles from the Mexican border.

Now the procedures have begun

to get Space X out of Delaware as soon as possible.

The Secretary of State in Texas,

Jane Nelson,

confirmed that they have accepted the request for a change of address through her website. It was a predictable movement. At the end of January, Judge Kathaleen McCormick considered that members of Tesla's board of directors were influenced by their relationship with the company's CEO and ruled in favor of a small investor, Richard Tornetta, after denouncing "excessive and unjustified enrichment." ". Without that fortune, Musk would cease to be the richest man in the world, a stratospheric amount that he assured during the trial that he intends to use to finance his interplanetary travel initiative.

Space X is not the only company leaving Delaware in recent weeks. Neuralink, Musk's brain implant company, also changed the status of its corporate constitution last week. He goes from Delaware, his new cursed State, to his beloved Texas, where a Republican has ruled with a strong hand since 2015, Greg Abbott.

Musk announced SpaceX's corporate relocation to Texas hours before the company launched

a robotic lander

that will attempt to transport NASA payloads to the Moon. The launch time was postponed to early Thursday morning from Wednesday due to a technical problem.

Despite the move and Space X launching its rockets into space from Boca Chica, Texas, its corporate headquarters remains in Hawthorne, California, a few kilometers from the Los Angeles airport. Musk has already expressed his intention to make the same change of official address for Tesla, a move that would require shareholder approval as it is a public company.