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Huge data center approved with 'aggressive timeline to build' in far northern BR suburbs
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:11 am
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:11 am
This will be built near the foot of the Audubon bridge between New Roads and St. Francisville.
West Feliciana approved the development - that was not a guaranteed to happen considering how tight they are on developers.
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West Feliciana approved the development - that was not a guaranteed to happen considering how tight they are on developers.
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The parish Planning & Zoning Commission easily voted in favor of the Hut 8 artificial intelligence data center. Parish President Kenny Havard said the center will create "several hundred" permanent jobs.
Riley Trettel, senior vice president of data center development for Hut 8, said the plan is to lease the center to an undisclosed tenant, which will then buy computers and equipment. Trettel said Hut 8 serves as a developer for technology companies that need more computer infrastructure than they can build.
The tenants of the data center will purchase $10 billion worth of computers and equipment, Havard said.
Hut 8 plans to build the data center on a 611-acre parcel off La. 964 on the southern end of the parish.
The first phase would consist of two 450,000-square-foot buildings that would house data servers and create thousands of direct and indirect construction jobs. More than 50 permanent jobs would be created for network and server technicians and maintenance staff. Plans are to complete the first building by the end of the year and the second before the end of 2026.
"We have an aggressive timeline to build," Trettel said. "We plan to get started as expeditiously as we can."
Louisiana is a target market for Hut 8, Trettel said. There’s a strong fiberoptic infrastructure along Interstate 10 and the property is close to River Bend. The site the company plans to build on is high above the 500 year flood plain and there’s a robust work force.
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Talk of a large-scale data center has been swirling around West Feliciana Parish for more than a year. In November 2023, Havard announced the parish had sold the 107-acre site in its industrial park for $500,000 for a business that would be a tremendous boost for the local economy.
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Talk of a large-scale data center has been swirling around West Feliciana Parish for more than a year. In November 2023, Havard announced the parish had sold the 107-acre site in its industrial park for $500,000 for a business that would be a tremendous boost for the local economy.
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This is the second announcement of a large AI data center coming to Louisiana in less than two months. In late November, Facebook parent company Meta revealed plans to build a massive, multibillion-dollar center in north Louisiana that will process data for the tech behemoth and is being touted as a win for economic development by Gov. Jeff Landry.
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Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:15 am to frequent flyer
When I think of northern Baton Rouge, I definitely think of a robust workforce.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:17 am to wasteland
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When I think of northern Baton Rouge, I definitely think of a robust workforce.
As you should....
It's not St. Gabriel or the Plaquemine area, but there are a lot of jobs up there. The largest refinery in the state + an integrated chemical production plant are all up there. The reason this data center is going up there is because it can consume power from the 3 massive generators there - Big Cajun 1, Big Cajun 2, and Riverbend Station.
This post was edited on 1/7/25 at 7:35 am
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:21 am to wasteland
They chose to build it there for the old power conduits of the old factories along the river.
If this was built in any other area around BR it would create a power strain when it went live.
If this was built in any other area around BR it would create a power strain when it went live.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:27 am to frequent flyer
I would not call St. Francisville a “suburb” of Baton Rouge. It was founded in 1807.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:27 am to hometownhero89
Hopefully they can expand some of the powerplants very quickly.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:29 am to zippyputt
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I would not call St. Francisville a “suburb” of Baton Rouge. It was founded in 1807.
The date of its founding doesn't prevent it from being a suburb. It's in the Baton Rouge metro area because of commuter patterns of West Feliciana. Same thing with New Roads and Pointe Coupee. Both of those places have done a good job retaining their small town feel, but the bulk of the people in both of them also commute to or near Baton Rouge for work.
I agree that it doesn't feel like a generic suburb like Zachary does. That just makes it a better suburb IMO.
This post was edited on 1/7/25 at 7:33 am
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:33 am to frequent flyer
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50 permanent jobs would be created for network and server technicians
Whoop de do. Less than $8M in salaries to tax at 150k average. With that much floor space, the 50 are probably going to be power/HVAC or other site reliability engineers, for when you actually need something to be physically unplugged. AWS, FB, etc., will all still have hundreds of people "administering" the equipment, but they won't be in Louisiana.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:33 am to frequent flyer
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The largest refinery in the country
Tell me more about this please
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:35 am to LemmyLives
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Whoop de do. Less than $8M in salaries to tax at 150k average.
Big impact on a town like New Roads or St. Francisville.
Even larger will be the planned powerplant expansions.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:35 am to LemmyLives
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50 permanent jobs would be created for network and server technicians
Wow that is a shite deal for a massive eye sore, huge energy demands, huge water demands, and massive noise pollution.
Feel bad for anyone having to live anywhere remotely close to one of those places
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:38 am to UltimaParadox
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huge water demands
Tell me more about the recurring water demands for a data center.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:42 am to frequent flyer
Are there any details on the tax incentives on these two datacenter projects? If they aren't exempt from property tax, I'd imagine these would be pretty decent boosts to the coffers via property taxes. But I haven't seen any specifics about that.
Also, this is an interesting statement:
At least Louisiana is a "target market" for something or somebody.
Also, this is an interesting statement:
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Louisiana is a target market for Hut 8, Trettel said. There’s a strong fiberoptic infrastructure along Interstate 10
At least Louisiana is a "target market" for something or somebody.
This post was edited on 1/7/25 at 7:59 am
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:45 am to frequent flyer
The sound waves from that thing operating are gonna frick some people up that live close by.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:46 am to frequent flyer
Just what we need, a bunch of tech soys hanging around
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:47 am to dewster
St. Fran is not a suburb of BR. Neither is New Roads. Where do you stop? BR burb of NOLA, you can commute? Hammond of BR, BR of Hammond etc… Who is a suburb of who?
It is a distinct and separate community.
It is a distinct and separate community.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:48 am to goofball
How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
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In the US, datacenters can consume anywhere between 300,000 and four million gallons of water a day
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Ironically, while evaporative coolers are why datacenters consume so much water onsite, the same technology is commonly employed to reduce the amount of water lost to steam. Even still the amount of water consumed through energy generation far exceeds that of modern datacenters.
A 2016 study [PDF] by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) found that roughly 83 percent of water consumption attributable to datacenters could be attributed to power generation. As a result, reducing onsite water consumption at the expense of higher power draw could lead to an increase in the amount of water consumed.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:48 am to goofball
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Tell me more about the recurring water demands for a data center.
Sure
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ultimately revealed that Google data centers in the region consumed more than 355 million gal. of water in 2021 — an amount that had tripled since 2016 — representing more than one-quarter of the town’s annual water consumption, according to the February 22, 2023
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Collectively, data centers rank in the top 10 of “water-consuming industrial or commercial industries” in the U.S., according to a study led by Landon Marston, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.
Source American Society of Civil Engineers
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A large data center, researchers say, can gobble up anywhere between 1 million and 5 million gallons of water a day — as much as a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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In West Des Moines, Iowa, a network of Microsoft data centers that OpenAI used has turned the tech giant into the area’s largest water user, consuming more than the city itself, according to water district data. (The district says the company was also investigating a leak that significantly raised its usage.) In Talavera de la Reina, a small city tucked among Spain’s barley and wheat fields, Meta Platforms Inc. has clashed with locals over a plan to build a center that will use about 665 million liters (176 million gallons) of water a year.
Bloomberg source
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:49 am to frequent flyer
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near the foot of the Audubon bridge
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More than 50 permanent jobs
That ought to increase traffic counts on that bridge by a few dozen cars each day.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 7:53 am to UptownJoeBrown
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The sound waves from that thing operating are gonna frick some people up that live close by.
For only 50 jobs, its probably time time to contact your city council. It takes a lot more people to run that, but they will be doing it remote. At least bring those jobs local
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