Silicon Valley giant Oracle has announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Austin, Texas. The move is part of a corporate exodus out of California and into more business-friendly states like Texas. Oracle quietly announced the move through an SEC filing late last week, rather than a formal release.

Oracle moved into its current headquarters office in 1989, but it has been shopping for a new location for several years. It opened its Austin office campus in 2018. The campus includes an onsite apartment complex and is able to support up to 10,000 employees at one time. Last year, Oracle announced that it planned to leave Silicon Valley and was considering a new location in Las Vegas.

Several companies are making the same decision. Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to relocate from the Silicon Valley area to Houston, Texas, and Palantir Technologies moved its headquarters from Northern California to Denver this year. Overall, California companies are looking for alternative markets. Tesla and SpaceX, which are based in Southern California, are in the process of moving to Texas as well.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.