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Companies are increasingly eyeing Louisiana for data center projects
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:01 am
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:01 am
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Louisiana officials say the state is experiencing a surge of interest from companies looking to build data centers, spurred by Meta’s $10 billion project in Richland Parish, The Center Square writes. LINK
That landmark deal, negotiated with Entergy Louisiana, includes three new natural gas plants and grid upgrades—costs Entergy insists won’t significantly raise customer bills. Regulators hailed it as a “once-in-a-generation investment opportunity.”
Now, with more than 200 projects in the pipeline, power reliability has emerged as the top concern for economic growth. Lawmakers and utilities are working through the new Task Force on Energy Infrastructure and Modernization to plan long-term capacity, weighing solutions from natural gas to nuclear energy and battery storage.
Officials stress the stakes are high: Data centers and other industrial users need massive amounts of electricity and water, putting pressure on Louisiana’s grid and resources. Aligning state agencies, utilities and local governments will be critical to meeting rising demand.
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Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:02 am to ragincajun03
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Now, with more than 200 projects in the pipeline, power reliability has emerged as the top concern for economic growth.
With good reason. Entergy can't keep the juice flowing sometimes in normal weather, much less slight wind and rain.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:08 am to jdd48
Makes sense for Louisiana to benefit here. I hope there is a way for us to tax the revenue generated by these data centers.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:09 am to jdd48
If you don’t have a back up generator and a window unit in south Louisiana then you haven’t been paying attention.
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 8:56 am
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:09 am to ragincajun03
quote:yeah… sure
costs Entergy insists won’t significantly raise customer bills
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:10 am to ragincajun03
They found out Entergy would build all the generation facilities need to support them.....and is willing to soak current customers for the costs.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:21 am to Dandaman
Our inept and corrupt leadership will find a way to frick it up by making sure they fill their pockets first….see oil and gas
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:27 am to ragincajun03
Cheap land. Natural gas in close proximity. And plenty of water.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:30 am to ragincajun03
If this forces Entergy to decentralize the power grid slightly, I'm for it. But the cost needs to be on the user of the electricity, and Entergy better set up a robust source of power - like nuclear or natural gas.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:30 am to ragincajun03
Our city council just rejected a land sale for a data center after facing pushback…for now.
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 8:31 am
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:30 am to Dandaman
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Makes sense for Louisiana to benefit here.
At least right now, we have a lot of energy output without a lot of growth. And there is an insane amount of fresh water sources with our massive river network if they need it.
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 8:32 am
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:31 am to dakarx
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hey found out Entergy would build all the generation facilities need to support them.....and is willing to soak current customers for the costs.
Which is ridiculous.
Private consumers are going to start getting the real extremely short end of the stick once they start competing with data centers for kilowatts.
Data centers should be built here. The river is basically limitless fresh cooling water. They should ALL be nuclear powered, by their own small nuclear power plants.
I also find it hilarious that since now all these companies need this arse pile of electricity and cooling to exist, the enviro-loonies are totally ok with microsoft installing umpteen thousand diesel generators all over the place.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:32 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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r. They should ALL be nuclear powered, by their own small nuclear power plants.
That or Natural Gas. We have gas pipelines all over this place, and it's dirt cheap.
Nukes would be ideal, but they are slow to set up. I'd love to see a second and third reactor at Riverbend Station one day.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:33 am to Dandaman
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I hope there is a way for us to tax the revenue generated by these data centers.
Lol. How do you think our politicians attracted META (etc.) to build data centers here? Tax exemptions and tax rebates. LINK
Louisiana citizens will be on the hook for higher energy bills with no true benefit. The benefit sold is 300-500 jobs created. Those figures are undoubtedly mostly temporary construction workers, with data centers only needing anywhere from 20-100 people to operate. You don't think these publicly traded companies aren't constantly trying to lean out data center operations either?
Fleeced by mega corporations and Louisiana politicians. Tale as old as time.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:46 am to ragincajun03
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grid upgrades
I’ll believe when I see it. quote:
Entergy insists won’t significantly raise customer bills
Maybe not but when you’re already paying $25 in storm restoration charges from 15 years ago, what’s an extra $5
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:59 am to Baers Foot
If you think construction of a data center only calls for 300-500 people, you've never seen a site. These places take thousands of people to build.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 9:03 am to Baers Foot
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Lol. How do you think our politicians attracted META (etc.) to build data centers here? Tax exemptions and tax rebates
Those don’t last for ever and there’s a metric shite ton of other direct and indirect costs that raise revenue
Or that piece of land could have stayed on the states books as completely unusable undeveloped land
Posted on 9/24/25 at 9:06 am to whoa
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grid upgrades
It's not outside the realm of possibility. A big problem we have here is hurricanes, tornados and the odd ice event taking out power lines. At the very least, Entergy is going to need to reinforce grid resilience at least around those sites. If these AI companies are smart, they'll expand the scope of the coverage site a bit to incorporate some surrounding areas as a goodwill measure (see also: giving people along the corridor from the site to the interstate some level of access to their bandwidth).
Posted on 9/24/25 at 9:08 am to Baers Foot
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The benefit sold is 300-500 jobs created. Those figures are undoubtedly mostly temporary construction workers
Have you laid eyes on a jobsite of the magnitude of a mega data center? The temporary (as in 1-3 years or more) construction workers number in the thousands - which includes truck drivers and a whole host of downstream workers and laborers at the hundreds of supplemental and ancillary businesses doing work on or around the site. The Meta project in North Louisiana is as massive a jobsite as I've seen in my life and I have been in the construction industry across the south (mostly south Louisiana) for more than 2 decades.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 9:22 am to Baers Foot
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Those figures are undoubtedly mostly temporary construction workers
And a lot of those contractors are brought in from other states bc they have expertise in constructing the data centers. These data centers absolutely destroy small cities and towns.
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