Musk Expanding In Bay Area Again, Despite Complaints About San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — After moving many of his business ventures from California to Texas in recent years, Elon Musk is in the process of expanding his companies' presence in the Bay Area, with plans for hundreds of thousands of square feet of office space, according to reports.

Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer implant company, leased a more than 140,000-square-foot, five-story building in South San Francisco, a source with knowledge about the transaction told the San Francisco Business Times, which reported on the lease earlier this month.

Musk’s AI company, xAI, is seeking 80,000 square feet of offices for the immediate future and over 250,000 square feet for later expansion, sources told the Times, which reported that the search is based around Palo Alto south to Santa Clara.

The moves come after Musk relocated the respective headquarters of Tesla and X to the Austin area and the headquarters of SpaceX to South Texas, and expanded Neuralink’s square footage in the Austin suburbs, following Musk's complaints about the business climate in California during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

It would appear there’s no love lost between Musk and the Bay Area. In recent days, he called downtown San Francisco a “drug zombie apocalypse” in a post on X and said federal intervention was the “only solution.”