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    Clara Weaver

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    Snailbrook is a settlement under construction in Bastrop County within the Greater Austin

    region of Texas.It is intended as a “utopian” company town for the employees of The Boring

    Company and SpaceX.It is based on the initiative of businessman Elon Musk, who has

    acquired large areas of land in Texas for himself and his companies.According to The

    Guardian, the settlement had 12 inhabitants in 2023.== Location ==

    The town is located on the Colorado River east of Austin and close to Bastrop.It has a Boring

    Company production hall and a SpaceX site where receiving technology for its Starlink

    satellite communications network is manufactured.The Tesla Gigafactory Texas is located

    just 21 kilometers to the east.A site of the neurotechnology company Neuralink is also

    located in the immediate vicinity.A moderation center for the X social network acquired by

    Musk is also to be built near Austin.== History ==

    Since around 2020, entrepreneur Elon Musk has increasingly relocated his company's

    activities from California to Texas following disputes with the local authorities in California

    in the COVID-19 pandemic.In Texas, businesses benefit from more favorable tax rates and

    fewer regulations.As a result, Musk also increasingly shifted his politics from the Democrats

    to the Republicans, who dominate Texas.Musk also complained about the lack of housing for

    the employees of his companies in the Austin region.He therefore began to acquire land in

    Texas in Greater Austin on a large scale via letterbox companies and his companies.Around

    35,000 acres of land just outside Austin were acquired by Musk and his companies with a

    value of 2.5 billion US dollars.The project to build his own company town began in 2021
    according to reports by the Wall Street Journal.Musk's then-girlfriend Grimes and Kanye

    West are also said to have been involved in the planning.The name “Snailbrook” alludes to

    the Boring Company's stated goal of building drills that can bore tunnels faster than a snail

    can move.=== Infrastructure development ===

    In mid-2024, satellite images showed the completion of several residential buildings next to

    the two factories and a couple of residential houses.The site also has a pool, a tennis court

    and two pickleball courts.Under the name “Project Amazing”, there are also plans to build a

    dense workers' housing estate of 110 houses with street names that match the activities of

    the Boring Company, such as Cutterhead Crossing, Waterjet Way and Porpoise Place.There

    are also plans to build a Montessori school for the children of workers and even to establish

    a university nearby.The housing is said to be affordable with rent of 800 US dollars per

    month, but employees must agree to move out within one month if laid off.== References ==

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