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Inside the rural Texas town where Elon Musk is basing his business empire
2025-04-30 02:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
2 days agoMike WendlingBBC News@mwendlingReporting fromBastrop, TexasGetty ImagesAfter fleeing Silicon Valley for political and business reasons, Elon Musk is building a corporate campus in rural Texas but his new neighbours have mixed views.Half an hour east of Austin, past the airport, the clogged-up traffic starts to melt away and the plains of Central Texas open up, leaving the booming city behind.Somewhere along the main two-lane highway, a left turn takes drivers down Farm-to-Market Road 1209. It seems like an unlikely address for a high-tech hub, but that's exactly what Elon Musk, the world's richest man and one of President Donald Trump's closest allies, hopes it will become.Court filings indicate that a large metal building finished in the last few months will be the new headquarters of X, his social media platform.A short distance away, a large logo of the Boring Company, Musk's infrastructure company, is plastered on the side of another headquarters. And across FM 1209 is...
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