Static lifetime for a temporary variable?

Question

I have the following function:

fn load_data() -> Result<MyData> {
    // ...
    Ok(my_data)
}

I want to call this function only once during the execution of my program and save the result in a static variable. It'd be nice if the result is of type Option<MyData>, so the consumer just needs to check if the data is there or not, regardless of the reason of why it's not there.

I have came up with the following:

lazy_static! {
    static ref DATA: Option<&'static MyData> = load_data().ok().as_ref();
}

However, that line fails:

35 |     static ref DATA: Option<&'static MyData> = load_data().ok().as_ref();
   |                                                ----------------^^^^^^^^^
   |                                                |               returns a value referencing data owned by the current function
   |                                                |
   |                                                |
   |                                                temporary value created here

Is there a way to achieve what I want or am I conceptually wrong?