GOV JEFF LANDRY: SpaceX bets on Louisiana as America’s next frontier takes off in the South

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry details SpaceX’s historic $100 billion investment to build a massive Starbase in Vermilion Parish. Landry explains how the project is expected to create 3,000 direct jobs and more than 8,100 indirect jobs while supporting thousands of launches annually. He also discusses efforts to transform rural Louisiana into a major artificial intelligence data center hub. For generations, Americans looked west when they thought about opportunity. Today, they should look south. Louisiana has always powered America. We fueled the nation with energy, fed it through our farms and ports, built ships that defended it, and manufactured the products that helped it grow. Now, we are helping lead America’s next frontier: space. NASA AT 68: AMERICA MUST LEAD ON THE MOON, MARS AND BEYOND—OR CHINA WILL With SpaceX choosing Louisiana for its newest