Type: Commercial spaceport for Starship launches
Investment: $100 billion (SpaceX-reported)
Construction start: 2027 (SpaceX) / by end of 2027 (Louisiana Economic Development)
First Starship launch: 2029 (SpaceX target) / initial operations 2030 (LED estimate)
Jobs: 3,000 direct new jobs over 10 years (avg $92,600 salary); 30,000+ construction jobs at peak
Site: Former Exxon property along Gulf Coast, Vermilion Parish, ~10 hours from Starbase Texas
Self-sustaining spaceport: Propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping, vehicle processing, airport
Starship development cost: $8B+ spent on Starship development (per SEC filings)
Falcon retirement: Musk says Falcon rockets will be retired once Starship flies multiple times per week

On the data center map

No mappable coordinate is recorded for SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish) yet. Location: Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA.

The story of SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish)

Announced capex: $100B

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

The deal

developer: SpaceX

Why here

SpaceX Starbase Louisiana sits on greenfield in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

SpaceX $100B investment (announced): $100B news

Sources

SpaceX will build a second, $100B 'Starbase' spaceport in Louisiana · TechCrunch
SpaceX Launches New Era of Commercial Spaceflight with $100 Billion Louisiana Campus · Louisiana Economic Development
SpaceX Starbase Louisiana · SpaceX

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Common questions

What is SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish)?

SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.

Who is building SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish)?

SpaceX is recorded as a party to SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.

Is SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish) operating yet?

As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish) is announced but not yet built. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.

How verified is the data on SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish)?

A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). SpaceX Starbase Louisiana (Vermilion Parish): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 5, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/spacex-starbase-louisiana-vermilion-parish

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