{"id":1047629,"date":"2026-11-06T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047629"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:53:03","slug":"musks-470-million-political-bet-why-tesla-spacexs-texas-expansion-faces-a-regulatory-test-after-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/musks-470-million-political-bet-why-tesla-spacexs-texas-expansion-faces-a-regulatory-test-after-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s $470 million political bet: Why Tesla, SpaceX&#8217;s Texas expansion faces a regulatory test after US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Elon Musk&#8217;s political bet on Republican candidates, especially in Texas, in the US midterm elections has failed to deliver the outcome he may have hoped for. The shares of his companies have tumbled spectacularly in the last two trading sessions, losing $456 billion since Tuesday&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n<p>With Democrats flipping several Republican held seats to take control of both chambers of Congress and winning the governor race in Texas, investors are increasingly concerned that Tesla and SpaceX could face tougher regulatory scrutiny, particularly over their ambitious artificial intelligence (AI) and data-centre expansion plans in the state, according to a report by CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Elon Musk&#8217;s political bet on Republican candidates, especially in Texas, in the US midterm elections has failed to deliver the outcome he may have hoped for. The shares of his companies have tumbled spectacularly in the last two trading sessions, losing $456 billion since Tuesday&#8217;s close. With Democrats flipping several Republican held seats to take control of both chambers of Congress and winning the governor race in Texas, investors are increasingly concerned that Tesla and SpaceX could face tougher regulatory scrutiny, particularly over their ambitious artificial intelligence (AI) and data-centre expansion plans in the state, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047634,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047629\/revisions\/1047634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}