Epoch Times - How Louisiana Attracted Nearly $70 Billion in Investments: Gov. Jeff Landry
Aired: 2025-10-20
Duration: 01:12


=== Record-Breaking Investment Surge (01:11) ===

[00:00:00]  I think that most of that, a big portion of that investment is coming to Louisiana because of some of the great things that we've done over the last year or so.
[00:00:11]  We did unbelievable tax reform, educational reform, public safety reform.
[00:00:16]  So Louisiana is really catching its stride right now.
[00:00:20]  Louisiana is going through historic investment.
[00:00:23]  We have broken and shattered all of the records.
[00:00:26]  We've got close to $70 billion worth of private investment that has come into Louisiana over the last, what is that, 18 months.
[00:00:37]  And it really is at a record-breaking pace.
[00:00:40]  Of course, a big portion of that portfolio is in the LNG expansion.
[00:00:45]  So we've got a bunch of LNG plants.
[00:00:46]  We've got the largest construction project in North America going on.
[00:00:51]  That's Venture Global's LNG facility down in Plackamans, Louisiana.
[00:00:55]  Hyundai Steel announced a brand new Greenfield steel mill that they're going to build.
[00:00:59]  We haven't built a steel mill in the United States in over 60 years.
[00:01:03]  We announced that at the White House.
[00:01:05]  Meta is building the largest AI facility in the world up in North Louisiana.