re: Entergy needs seven new power plants for the META Data Centers

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Bend over residential rate payers. Somehow this will make your rates go up.

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I would suppose that Entergy will be selling the power to Meta at a profit. Entergy will use the proceeds from the sale of the electricity to pay off the bond debt and cost of producing the electricity. Can you explain how this will make rates go up? Unless they negotiated a bad deal and are charging less than the cost to produce it should not affect the residential rate at all.

All the utility companies say this. To this point, there has yet to be a utility lower rates for residential customers. They have all still raised residential rates. If you can find a utility that has lowered residential rates due to data center funding, you'll be the first.

This is going to drive development of smaller, self contained nuclear power stations. These huge corporations aren’t going to be held up by something like Entergy.

These folks are going to figure out how to roll these things out in short order.

Data centers should be required to produce their own power. Period.

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Entergy

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I genuinely wish harm to higher ups with entergy that make decisions. They are miserable to deal with as a customer, and 100xs worse to deal with when they are your client.

I've never seen a company hated so much by its customers walk around with their nose as high up in the air as theirs.

When I was in college, they shut power off to the house I was renting 3 days after moving in. Would not turn power back on to my house until the rental company paid the bill the previous renter was behind on. Had to get the public service commissioner involved, and had my power on that night.

frick Entergy.

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Ask yourself this question. Of all the locations that Meta could have chosen to build their data center, why did they pick Louisiana? Personally, I think Meta knows they can screw over Entergy to pay for the power plants. Then Entergy will turn around and screw Louisiana for the power plants.

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Ample water
Cheap land
Cheap electricity/energy

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uses around 100 megawatts

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There is no way this is accurate.


Lafayette uses 600MW peak.

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Did average, not peak.

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Average what?

In relation to what size power plant you would need to build to serve the load, you use peak.

A ton of this anti-data center and water consumption rhetoric is coming from the smelly low lifes at the Alliance for Affordable Energy (bunch of tree hugging wacko green new deal environmentalists).

Do your own research and deep dive into these deals and stop taking propaganda headlines at face value.

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Officials announced that Meta planned to fund the construction of seven new power plants that would generate more than 5,200 megawatts of electricity, some 240 miles of new 500 kV transmission lines connecting southern Louisiana to northern Louisiana and Arkansas, upgrade Entergy’s existing nuclear power plants, build up to 2,500 megawatts of solar farms and install batteries to store solar power across three locations to support the data center.

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In relation to what size power plant you would need to build to serve the load, you use peak.

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Except I wasn’t designing a power plant. I was giving context of how mind bogglingly big that number was. Giving a plant size which is sized for worst case scenarios plus a safety margin doesn’t do that as well as point out its orders of magnitude more than what it takes to power a medium sized city.


But if you want to focus on generation, fine:

The entire state of Louisiana has around 25000 MW of generation capacity at the moment.

They want to add 10000 and focus it on this one facility.