By Martha Williams, US News Reporter

Elon Musk's Texas real estate empire is far more extensive than previously believed.

The Tesla and SpaceX boss confirmed his move from California to Texas in 2020.

However, it was not clear until now the staggering extent to which the richest man in the world has expanded in the Lone Star State.

Musk's companies own more than 500 properties covering 6,000 acres in Texas. His expansive network of factories, tunnels, and launch pads spreads from the top to the bottom.

'He's going all in on Texas,' Goran Calic, a strategy professor at McMaster University in Canada who spent years studying Musk's management style, told the Houston Chronicle.

'And the reason he's doing it is because of control. Elon Musk has more control in Texas than he does anywhere else.'

The star of his Lone Star State takeover is Tesla's 2,500-acre factory complex, located in Austin.

Since Musk opened Austin's Giga Texas in 2022, the complex has ballooned to over ten million square feet of production space — and could double if plans for a wave of buildings move forward.

Elon Musk's Texas real estate empire is far more extensive than previously believed