Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, October 8th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Tech Real Estate Report. Tesla leaves for Texas while Apple rocks up in Hollywood.

YouTube is going to stop doing those year-end rewind videos. A developer says

Facebook banned him for life because they didn't like his app and of course the weekend long read suggestions

where we ask the question is Google's famous hiring gauntlet broken.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. I thought they had already done this, but I guess the move was only Elon's at this point.

Tesla now, though, is officially moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, becoming perhaps the most high-profile

Silicon Valley company to Jump Ship, quoting the Wall Street Journal.

Chief Executive Elon Musk announced the move from Tesla's Austin Area Factory, which the company

began building last year and where it held its annual shareholder meeting Thursday.

He added that Tesla plans to expand its activities in California, but that the company's ability to scale up in the San Francisco Bay area is limited.

You go to our Fremont factory, it's jammed, he said.

We're like spam in a can, end quote.

Mr. Musk said last year that he had moved to Texas himself personally,

where his rocket company Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX has major operations.

He previously likened California to a sports team that had grown complacent after a winning streak.

Tesla is following the footsteps of companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a descendant of what Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, started in Apollo Alto Garage, and Oracle, which moved their corporate headquarters to Texas earlier in the COVID-19

pandemic. Mr. Musk nodded to some of the challenges of the Bay Area saying

quote it's tough for people to afford houses and a lot of people have to come in from far away."

Austin, however, isn't without its complications for Mr. Musk and others.

In February, swaths of the state, including Austin, lost power in a fluke storm, something Mr.

Musk experienced firsthand.

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