Musk has been betting heavily on Texas in recent years because the state is a long-term base for the Republican Party, with loose regulation and business environment, and the state government offering preferential treatment to attract businesses to have their headquarters locally. Musk moved Tesla's global headquarters from California to Austin, Texas early in his life to build the world's largest automobile superplant. His SpaceX also had its headquarters in the state and established a starship rocket research, manufacturing, assembly and orbital launch center in southern Texas. Other businesses such as artificial intelligence company xAI's deep layout of computing power, engineering and data center supporting infrastructure in Texas.
The first four power centers include Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Ohio, and North Carolina, which ranked tenth, were all overturned by Democrats in this election. It is no accident that the construction of AI data centers has become an important political issue that the American public resents
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- Amelia Yong·10:05So I guess it is bad for Musk when Democrats won Texas. it is quite sad politics and businesses are highly correlated in US or many countries. It is not healthy for the country as a whole.1Report
- WINTERIN·10:13Texas is more than a tax haven here. It is the shared infrastructure base for Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, and that stacking effect is hard to replicate1Report
