{"id":18869,"date":"2024-12-24T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18869"},"modified":"2024-12-24T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:30:21","slug":"elon-musk-is-creating-his-own-texas-town-hundreds-already-live-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18869","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Is Creating His Own Texas Town. Hundreds Already Live There."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the past few years, Elon Musk has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/19\/us\/texas-elon-musk.html\" title>expanded his footprint in Texas<\/a>, moving his companies from California and building offices, warehouses and manufacturing plants across a growing number of Texas counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now Mr. Musk is trying to do something that few, if any, titans of industry have done in a century: create his own company town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk has long talked about his desire to make a new town \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1368915472142401540?lang=en\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" 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