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Meta, Louisiana and data center

Entergy Louisiana gets approval to build 3 new combined cycle plants to power huge Meta data center

The Richland Parish data center project, first announced in 2024, is one of the largest private capital investments in Louisiana’s history.

Straight Arrow News on MSN · 1d

Louisiana moves ahead with contentious gas power plants for Meta data center

The Louisiana Public Service Commission approved plans by Entergy to build three new gas power plants for a Meta data center.

NOLA.com · 4d

Controversial plan to power Meta's giant Louisiana data center up for approval today

If the Public Service Commission approves the plan, Entergy will have the greenlight to build three new gas plants to power the tech giant’s $10 billion facility.

9hon MSN

Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout

This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.

The Advocate4d

Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'

Land speculators are buying up property, paying 20 or 30 times more than they would have a year ago. New business permits ...

6don MSN

Gretna Man Killed in Single-Vehicle Richland Parish Crash

On Saturday, August 16, 2025, shortly before 2:00 p.m., Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop F began investigating a ...

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