Elon Musk reportedly wants to build his own 'utopia' town

Elon Musk has made nary concealed of his tendency to colonise Mars, but seemingly not earlier he's had a spell astatine moving his ain assemblage present connected Earth.

The SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter proprietor wants to physique a "utopia" called Snailbrook for his workers to unrecorded successful Texas, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

It would beryllium built extracurricular the state's superior Austin, adjacent a tract for his abstraction company.

The municipality would besides beryllium adjacent to Musk's The Boring Company, a passageway operation firm, based successful Bastrop County.

Its projected sanction appears to beryllium a notation to the firm's mascot, a snail named Gary.

According to the newspaper, employees would beryllium charged astir $800 (£669) a period for 1 oregon two-bedroom homes and would person 30 days to permission the premises if they are sacked oregon resign.

Outdoor sports areas and swimming pools are reportedly among the planned amenities.

At slightest 3,500 acres of onshore has been purchased with a presumption to gathering the municipality connected the Colorado River, says WSJ, citing region deeds, onshore records, and emails with section officials.

That's the aforesaid stream that The Boring Company wants support to dump tens of thousands of wastewater into each day.

The institution has applied to section biology authorities to bash so, according to section media, and a nationalist gathering is owed to instrumentality spot this period wherever residents tin person their say.

Musk has made Texas the location of Boring, SpaceX, and Tesla, having announced plans to determination the latter's office from California over the state's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The multi-billionaire was unhappy that officials would not fto him reopen a car mill as the microorganism dispersed successful 2020.

Musk would apt anticipation that a institution municipality would springiness him much sway implicit however things are run, though his chaotic Twitter tenure has brought his attraction of unit nether the spotlight.

Thousands of radical were laid disconnected successful the contiguous aftermath of his takeover past October, and much discontinue aft helium demanded they motion up to a "hardcore" enactment culture.

It aboriginal emerged that bedrooms had been acceptable up astatine the societal media company's San Francisco office.