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re: If you haven't been to the META AI Datacenter site they're building in NELA, you should
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:42 pm to Sunnyvale
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:42 pm to Sunnyvale
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they should have their own power infrastructure
Dude
They’ll be generating their own power.
Industries a lot smaller normally generate their own power.
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Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:45 pm to Sunnyvale
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believe this is crazy. I dont understand why they have to use water for cooling. They can use something else. It isnt like they dont have the money. With these data centers built, they should have their own power infrastructure. Because its going to raise the rates of citizens all around. These are some of the biggest companies in the world. They have the money for this.
AI is going to become sentient and then the “water wars” will commence, as humanity fights for survival. Sucks, man.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:46 pm to Crappieman
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You should see all those dump trucks parked nightly at hotel parking lots in West Monroe.
I’m told these things do nothing for the local economy so this makes no sense. This would imply thousands of people are paying local taxes to stay in these hotel rooms and rent this equipment and frequenting local businesses
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:46 pm to Sunnyvale
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I dont understand why they have to use water for cooling. They can use something else. It isnt like they dont have the money.
Like what? Water is the best option for several reasons including keeping noise pollution to a minimum. Ask the folks in Texas about the noise the fan-cooled sites are generating. Lawsuits about it causing migraines and other health issues.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:47 pm to Cosmo
Didn't think it could post nothing. Disregard
This post was edited on 10/2/25 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:53 pm to Crappieman
They're all over the place up there. Hotels in Monroe now are around $250 a night in a Hampton Inn.
I was getting pics of signs. Didn't want to sit there with it filming for the 8 minutes it took to drive the length of the site. Yes, the roads are shot. The man camps going up are enormous. The property around it is selling for 20 times what it was worth a couple years ago. Something like 20,000 new jobs coming related to it. Already easily five thousand. And it's going up so fast it's hard to believe. There's hangars and hell, United Rentals has a yard on site for it.
It looks like they're building the damn pyramids.
I was getting pics of signs. Didn't want to sit there with it filming for the 8 minutes it took to drive the length of the site. Yes, the roads are shot. The man camps going up are enormous. The property around it is selling for 20 times what it was worth a couple years ago. Something like 20,000 new jobs coming related to it. Already easily five thousand. And it's going up so fast it's hard to believe. There's hangars and hell, United Rentals has a yard on site for it.
It looks like they're building the damn pyramids.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:55 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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I’m told these things do nothing for the local economy so this makes no sense.
I was told Richland parish will collect more tax revenue in the next 5 years than they've collected in the last 50.
Landowners are getting generationally wealthy, entrepreneurs like food truck drivers are growing their businesses, local people are working construction and possibly building a career in it.
Anyone who says it does nothing for the local economy isn't smart enough to contribute and is probably a drain on that same economy.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 2:57 pm to Ghost of Colby
Crappy roads to and from.
Piss-poor part of the State, even by Louisiana st a standards.
Speed-trap thieves making bank, though, so there's that.
Piss-poor part of the State, even by Louisiana st a standards.
Speed-trap thieves making bank, though, so there's that.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:01 pm to Captain Rumbeard
We go from computers in the 50's the size of rooms, to basically supercomputers that fit in our pockets to computers the size of cities.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:06 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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They're all over the place up there. Hotels in Monroe now are around $250 a night in a Hampton Inn.
Pecanland Mall Marriott or bust bro
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:12 pm to member12
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All you need is this guy.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:12 pm to Sunnyvale
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I dont understand why they have to use water for cooling. They can use something else.
Would you like them to use the 95F 70%RH air outside during the summer. What other way would you like them to cool something? You want them to build the worlds largest air conditioner and then have to build 3 more electrical plants to run it?
The 3rd largest river in the world is in their back yard, and it aint' running out of water any time soon.
They haven't said how much water this site will use, but it'll likely be a few million gallons daily. Even if it was 10,000,000 gallons a day, that's 0.3% of daily flow down the MS river. I'm sure the Gulf of America will really miss that water, water it will eventually get back anyway.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:14 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Sucks for any nearby people who previously enjoyed a quiet rural life. Still don’t really see the financial benefit to hosting these data centers.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:15 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I was just looking around on the website of one of the two construction companies doing this project. Its called DPR Construction and they must be balls to the wall just rolling in money. They have job openings all over the place right now according to their website. Everything from non-CDL drivers to Project engineers. Meta supposedly is dropping $10 billion just on this Louisiana project.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:16 pm to Roy Curado
Supposedly it’ll use as much power as it takes to run New York City. New York City has more residents than our whole state!
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:17 pm to Captain Rumbeard
The great sucking sound is not only we’re all the jobs are going to go but all the water. I hope you aren’t on the unnecessary list
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:19 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:25 pm to Sunnyvale
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Because its going to raise the rates of citizens all around.
Folks want to eat their slop.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:29 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Any coordinates?
Posted on 10/2/25 at 3:30 pm to Roy Curado
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Thank you to Meta for paying for 2 new power generators that Entergy customers will not have to foot the bill for.
This is true. But the cost of electricty in that small town, is still going to go up.
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