{"id":671120,"date":"2026-09-19T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=671120"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:46:42","slug":"heres-why-elon-musk-the-worlds-richest-man-has-moved-into-a-motor-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=671120","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, has moved into a motor home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world\u2019s richest man is currently living in a motor home in Memphis, and there\u2019s a good reason why.<\/p>\n

Despite having a net worth of $917 billion, Elon Musk is currently living in an Airstream trailer as he assists engineers in building the xAI supercomputer named Colossus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a nice Airstream,\u201d he said, replying to a post on his new accomodations.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a nice Airstream<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, this is something that Musk does fairly regularly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Elon, by the way, doing what people don\u2019t believe he does. He sleeps on the factory floor. He\u2019s in Memphis, helping build buildings,\u201d she noted, according to Fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the outlet notes that Musk\u2019s passion for projects often results in him setting up temporary accommodations on-site so he can be hands-on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Musk and his brother Kimbal were building their first startup, Zip2, in the \u201890s, they slept in a tiny Palo Alto office for six months while showering at the YMCA, according to Walter Isaacson\u2019s biography of Musk,\u201d the outlet noted. \u201cEven as a newfound multi-millionaire, having received $22 million from selling Zip2 to Compaq, Musk slept under his desk most nights as he prepared to launch X.com, the online bank that would later become PayPal, in 1999, according to Isaacson\u2019s biography.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even becoming \u201csuper wealthy\u201d didn\u2019t make him less prone to couch surfing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when he rose to the rank of super wealthy, having received another approximately $175 million from eBay\u2019s acquisition of PayPal, he often stayed at colleagues\u2019 homes while traveling in Silicon Valley, including the home of Michael Marks, who briefly served as Tesla CEO in 2007 before the pair clashed and Musk later took over the role,\u201d\u00a0Fortune explained. \u201cMusk\u2019s habit of finding a resting place close to the action was even more pronounced during the \u2018production hell\u2019 era in 2017 and 2018 when Tesla aimed to churn out 5,000 Model 3s per week, nearly double the rate it was producing previously.\u201d<\/p>\n

As BizPac Review previously reported<\/a>, Musk\u2019s mother, Maye, has a similar habit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I have a couch or a mattress on the floor, then I\u2019m good. Sleeping on the floor \u2014 there\u2019s a roof over your head. That\u2019s a luxury,\u201d she told\u00a0the New York Post. The outlet also reported that her nomadic penchant has resulted in her couch surfing until the age of 60, and even sleeping in the garage at her son\u2019s SpaceX facility in Texas.<\/p>\n

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The world\u2019s richest man is currently living in a motor home in Memphis, and there\u2019s a good reason why. Despite having a net worth of $917 billion, Elon Musk is currently living in an Airstream trailer as he assists engineers in building the xAI supercomputer named Colossus. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice Airstream,\u201d he said, replying to… Continue reading Here\u2019s why Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, has moved into a motor home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/671121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}