X to shift hgs to Texas

San Francisco's long relationship with X is nearly over.

Its owner Elon Musk is shuttering his social media company's headquarters in a gritty downtown neighborhood in the coming weeks and will move its last employees based there south to offices in Palo Alto and San Jose. New headquarters will be set up in Texas.

But city officials are not lamenting the exit. X bears little resemblance to the company that San Francisco wooed with a tax break more than a decade ago, when it was Twitter. The pandemic, and Musk's 2022 acquisition of the company and subsequent gutting of its workforce, reduced the headquarters to a ghost town. Musk and X did not respond to requests for comment.