SpaceX Plans $100B Starship Launch Base in Louisiana

The scale here is the story: a single-site footprint with five complexes and ten pads signals that Starship's constraint has shifted from vehicle development to launch cadence, and the orbital data-center constellation framing ties that cadence to compute demand rather than exploration. Louisiana becomes a second geographic bet alongside Texas, which matters for regulatory and environmental exposure as much as for capacity. The open question is whether the satellite and lunar timelines hold once construction and launch licensing begin.