Louisiana's $100B SpaceX project is also a bet on data centers in space

The new Vermilion Parish launch base will support Starship deployments as tech leaders push to move AI computing off-planet.

By: Katie Malone

Outlets: Technical.ly

Published: August 26, 2026

Words: 843

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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SpaceX’s $100 billion Louisiana spaceport could eventually play another role beyond launching rockets: helping put computing infrastructure in space.

As part of its plan to support thousands of launches each year, the new base in Vermilion Parish’s Pecan Island “will facilitate missions to Earth orbit for building orbital data centers,” Louisiana Economic Development said in a release officially announcing the project.

SpaceX and Nvidia are partnering to launch satellites designed to run AI …

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