SpaceX to Spend $100 Billion on Spaceport in Louisiana

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and artificial intelligence company, said on Tuesday that it would commit $100 billion to building a launch facility in southern Louisiana, as it aims to send multiple rockets into space a day.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, and Louisiana’s governor, Jeff Landry, said at an event in Abbeville, La., that the new facility would be named Starbase Louisiana. It will be on part of 125,000 acres of coastal marshland and bring 3,000 jobs to the area, they said.

Mr. Landry, a Republican, compared the deal to President Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which opened up the West to the country. The partnership with SpaceX, he said, will bring opportunities to his state.

“Today, Louisiana will give America the stars,” Mr. Landry said.

The site would be SpaceX’s second private launch site after Starbase, its headquarters in South Texas, and could help move the company closer toward its goals of building industries off Earth and making humans a multiplanetary species. Mr. Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive, has spoken about sending thousands of rockets into orbit a year, and SpaceX will need at least several locales to make that happen.

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