The Boring Company
Founder
A tunneling company building fast, low-cost underground transit — already carrying millions of passengers in Las Vegas.
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Operational Vegas stations
3M+
Passengers carried
68 mi / 104 stations
Approved network
~2.28 mi
Prufrock record segment
Founded in early 2017 out of Musk's frustration with traffic, The Boring Company aims to slash the cost and time of tunneling and build underground "Loop" systems where electric vehicles carry passengers point-to-point.
Its Las Vegas Convention Center Loop opened in 2021 as the first commercial Loop. The wider Vegas Loop has since grown to 8 operational stations and has carried more than 3 million passengers, with an approved network of 68 miles of tunnel and 104 stations designed to move up to ~90,000 passengers per hour. Construction on a Dubai Loop was reported to begin in 2026.
The company's Prufrock boring machines are designed to mine and install tunnel lining simultaneously, targeting over a mile per week — and set a record ~2.28-mile tunnel segment in 2026.
Milestones
Las Vegas Convention Center Loop opens — first commercial Loop.
Dubai Loop construction reported to begin.
Prufrock-2 completes a record ~2.28-mile tunnel segment.
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Achievements (2)
Boring Company Vegas Loop opens
The first commercial Boring Company tunnel transit system opens in Las Vegas, now carrying millions of passengers.
The Boring Company expands to Nashville and Dubai
After the Vegas Loop, The Boring Company won approval for a Nashville “Music City Loop” and a Dubai Loop agreement — extending its underground transit beyond Las Vegas.
Myth busters (2)
Claim: The Boring Company never actually built anything.
Reality: The Boring Company's Las Vegas Convention Center Loop opened to passengers in 2021, and the wider Vegas Loop has grown to several operational stations that together have carried more than three million passengers, with an approved network of 68 miles of tunnel and over 100 stations and a Dubai project reported to be starting. Its Prufrock boring machines set tunneling-speed records, completing a single segment of more than two miles. One can fairly debate whether cars-in-tunnels is the best form of mass transit — that's a legitimate planning argument. But the factual claim that the company built nothing is simply false: it operates a real underground transit system carrying real passengers every day.
Claim: Musk doesn’t actually work — he just tweets all day.
Reality: The output is hard to square with idleness. The same person simultaneously leads Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company and X — companies that in recent years landed and re-flew rockets hundreds of times, built the best-selling car on Earth, stood up a 100,000-GPU supercomputer in 122 days, and put a brain implant in 21 people. Colleagues across his companies describe punishing hours, deep technical involvement and a habit of sleeping at factories during crunch periods. Being highly active on X is real and consumes time — that's a fair critique of focus. But the notion that someone running this many simultaneously advancing hard-tech companies "doesn't work" isn't consistent with what those companies actually ship.
World firsts
First commercial passenger tunnel-transit "Loop"
The Boring Company's Las Vegas Convention Center Loop (2021) was the first commercial underground people-mover of its kind; the wider Vegas Loop has since carried more than three million passengers.