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Meta AI Data Center in Richland Parish is BIG.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 11/3/25 at 1:57 pm
A construction worker onsite says the actual site is 1 mile wide X 5 miles long. That isn't including the contractor parking sites.
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Posted on 11/3/25 at 1:59 pm to Crappieman
Between that and solar panels they’re gonna F up rural America.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:03 pm to Crappieman
I've read that it could eventually expand to up to a 5 GW facility
Will create a lot of construction jobs. Unfortunately data centers don't create a lot of permanent jobs.
Will create a lot of construction jobs. Unfortunately data centers don't create a lot of permanent jobs.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:12 pm to Powerman
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I've read that it could eventually expand to up to a 5 GW facility
With no losses that is a bout 410 mmscfd of natural gas. In reality this facility will require about a half a billion cubic feed of natural gas a day to run this facility. That's a 24" pipeline feeding a turbines at about 1200 psig.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:15 pm to prouddawg
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Between that and solar panels they’re gonna F up rural America.
Like it or not the data center boom is helping prop up an economy that is suffering in other sectors
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:18 pm to GumboPot
To put it in other terms, that's enough capacity to deliver power to every residence in Louisiana quite easily.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:24 pm to Crappieman
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A construction worker onsite says the actual site is 1 mile wide X 5 miles long.
It's insane. If you want to see the area on a map, look for Holly Ridge Elementary School on Google Maps, it sits at the corner of US Hwy 80 and LA 183.
Follow 183 north to Fortenberry Road. The area goes from Hwy 80 to Fortenberry road (south to north) and from 183 to Jaggers Lane (east to west). I don't think the entire area is Meta (the school, the church, etc), but the vast majority of it is.
Map with the shaded Meta land
Google Maps
Because the southern boundary angles, it's ~4.7-4.75 miles north to south and 1 mile across east to west.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:28 pm to Powerman
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Like it or not the data center boom is helping prop up an economy that is suffering in other sectors
To build one, sure. But complete data centers are mostly automated and only require small group of employees to maintain them.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:31 pm to Powerman
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I've read that it could eventually expand to up to a 5 GW facility
Yep. Starting off it's going to be running around 2.5GW. For a good idea of how much that is...
City of New Orleans Average Power Load: 643 MW, which means the Meta center will start off by using ~3.9x as much power as the city of New Orleans.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:34 pm to Bard
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I've read that it could eventually expand to up to a 5 GW facility
Yep. Starting off it's going to be running around 2.5GW. For a good idea of how much that is...
City of New Orleans Average Power Load: 643 MW, which means the Meta center will start off by using ~3.9x as much power as the city of New Orleans.
How big is the power plant that they are building next to it?
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:36 pm to WeeWee
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How big is the power plant that they are building next to it?
No idea, but I want to say they are building at least two?
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:44 pm to Boomer65
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To build one, sure. But complete data centers are mostly automated and only require small group of employees to maintain them.
This will likely be an almost permanent construction site, as this facility will begin to be obsolete the second it opens and will require continual upgrades.
It won't be the same the initial construction, but there will be a lot more than just some techs keeping the lights on.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:49 pm to Bard
Maybe there’s some power saving efficiencies somewhere else, but it’s interesting that big tech got coded as “green” and every time you ask AI whether die hard is a Christmas movie it kills a tree.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:04 pm to Bard
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:04 pm to Bard
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Yep. Starting off it's going to be running around 2.5GW. For a good idea of how much that is...
City of New Orleans Average Power Load: 643 MW, which means the Meta center will start off by using ~3.9x as much power as the city of New Orleans.
People must really want AI slop I guess.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:10 pm to Bard
Has it been approved to use small modular nuclear power generation?
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:31 pm to Bard
I'm pretty sure they are building 3 and also 1000s of acres of solar farms
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:34 pm to Decatur
I don’t categorically reject AI. But the sora videos and pictures I see are awful.
Right now the common theme is “morbidly obese person gets into argument at all you can eat buffet”. Facebook is flooded with it.
Sora may have some great applications. But tons of people are using it to create the same garbage thousands of times over.
Right now the common theme is “morbidly obese person gets into argument at all you can eat buffet”. Facebook is flooded with it.
Sora may have some great applications. But tons of people are using it to create the same garbage thousands of times over.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:40 pm to Crappieman
I worked on the preliminary soil testing for this data center along with many others. They are literally small, futuristic cities.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:41 pm to CaliHorn
I don’t see how the spend is justified with anything that we see today. And there’s no guarantee that the higher end goals ever pan out.
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