Elon’s Boring town

埃隆的乏味小镇

Today, Explained

2025-06-21

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We're revisiting an episode from earlier this year about the world's richest man and the company town he's developing outside of Austin, Texas. Like the industrialists who came before him, Elon Musk may learn it’s hard to create (and sustain) a utopia. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Photo of Elon Musk's Snailbrook town in Bastrop, Texas by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • If you open your Maps app and you type in Snailbrook, Texas, you will get nothing but a prompt.

  • Do you maybe want Scenicbrook, Texas or Springbrook, Texas?

  • Snailbrook is not a town just yet.

  • It is currently under construction outside of Austin.

  • The builder, one Elon Musk,

  • says Snailbrook will be a company town for employees of his boring company and X and etc. He has plans for it to be,

  • quote, Utopian, which... I mean, it's got a long way to go.

  • It's got a lot of rough edges, and it's definitely nothing that you would call, like, a utopia.

  • So far, it's just 15 trailers.

  • Coming up on Today Explained, Elon Musk takes us back to the days of the company town,

  • whether we care to go or not.

  • I don't see the draw, personally,

  • to wanting to go out in the middle of nowhere and then live in a tiny trailer.

  • It's Today Explained.

  • I'm Noelle King.

  • Ronnie Mola is a senior correspondent at Sherwood News who recently took a trip to Texas.

  • So Elon Musk, you know, leader of like six businesses,

  • has been steadily moving those businesses to Texas over the past few years.

  • I'm excited to announce that we're moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas.

  • The Boring Company has 20 jobs open in the Austin area.