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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 4:34 pm to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 10/2/25 at 4:34 pm to TeddyPadillac
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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.
META and the Power Plants aren't using the MS River for water. And the cooling water META will use is insignificant compared to the water use for the dedicated Entergy power plants.
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Posted on 10/2/25 at 4:39 pm to Sunnyvale
Again
They are putting 3 gas turbine generators on site.
They are putting 3 gas turbine generators on site.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 4:41 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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There’s a 2700 acre lake right down the road baw
That they can’t use
Posted on 10/2/25 at 4:41 pm to TeddyPadillac
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That they can’t use
I’ve got no idea, why not?
Posted on 10/2/25 at 4:47 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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Go see it. It's astonishing how huge that project is. There's probably a couple thousand bulldozers and backhoes working. God only knows how many trucks. The site itself is about four miles long and a half mile wide. There's hangars all over the place. Everything about this is enormous. I've been working around stuff like this for decades and I've never seen anything of this scale.
For reference, is it larger than the Poverty Point Mounds up the road from that location?
Posted on 10/2/25 at 4:52 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.
They should just use ice to cool
Posted on 10/2/25 at 5:30 pm to Sunnyvale
Daqs or 2js (next door) in Monroe. Idk about places around the site unless there are in food trucks
Posted on 10/2/25 at 5:32 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.
Ha! You must be new to Entergy. Those freakers will fine someway to add a surcharge to our bill and have the crooked PSC rubber stamp it like they do every other Entergy request.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 5:48 pm to jeffsdad
What about resturants to eat at?
They gotta some bad azz Roach Trucks slinging food at those construction sites.
If I had the connections, I would open a "massage" palor just on the dark seedy outskirts of that town.
Also open a stripper club.
They gotta some bad azz Roach Trucks slinging food at those construction sites.
If I had the connections, I would open a "massage" palor just on the dark seedy outskirts of that town.
Also open a stripper club.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 6:11 pm to Jim Rockford
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IIRC they're using ground water. Richland Parish isn't adjacent to the Mississippi. Unlike many other states, Louisiana has neglected to develop a state water policy. I suspect that's one of the big reasons for these projects to locate here. It'll be all fun and games until the aquifers dry up. By that time AI probably wont need these sites any more, but the farmers and local communities wont have any water.
The latest designs call for a closed loop system.
So once you get the initial batch (which is massive for sure) you're just replenishing the loses in the loop. Which isn't as bad of an impact
Posted on 10/2/25 at 6:54 pm to castorinho
4 pages and not one fricking pic.
Great job. Using imagination to picture 1000 dump trucks
Great job. Using imagination to picture 1000 dump trucks
Posted on 10/2/25 at 6:59 pm to BZ504
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Will NELA be a big business hub? Can we expect an NBA team there in 20 years?
Monroe has a hockey team.
Seriously, the impacts are already felt in the Monroe economy. Real estate is doing quite well as is the rental market for sure. My folks live in Monroe and there is a Meta Site Manager that is renting a house next door. He works an offshore type shift basically like 1 month on, 2 weeks off. He told my folks the pay is very good. Finding a decent place to stay was a challenge though. Monroe and NELA needed this.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 7:05 pm to Sunnyvale
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A poster, showed a youtube video about a data center being built in Texas.
This is the video
LINK
In my original post I outlined more of what is in the video and I know it is 30 minutes long but if you don't understand AI datacenters specifically it is worth the time IME. The speed of advances is mind-boggling. When you watch it you start to get a feel for scale and why power and water usage are a very real issue.
This is a list of topics
0:00 Intro
1:52 Datacenter Origins
2:53 Datacenter Location
4:06 AI Datacenters
5:08 AI Datacenter - Connectivity
7:17 AI Datacenter – Compute & Rack Power
11:40 AI Datacenter – Air & Liquid Cooling
14:32 AI Datacenter – Critical IT Power
17:50 SemiAnalysis Datacenter Anatomy
18:58 Texas Datacenter Mystery
21:26 AI Hyperscalers, Gigawatt Megaclusters & Nuclear Power
26:09 Satellite Images & SemiAnalysis Datacenter Industry Model
28:24 The Future of AI Datacenters
Posted on 10/2/25 at 7:16 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.
I honestly can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, but nobody (outside of Entergy, Meta, and the PSC) has a clue how much of the bill the public will end up being responsible for. The contract details are secret and anyone at the PSC who may have reviewed it is under NDA.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:37 pm to TeddyPadillac
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There’s a 2700 acre lake right down the road baw
That they can’t use
That's the only nearby water body that makes logistical sense for the power plants.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:38 pm to Captain Rumbeard
We should all see where it is
Gotta know where to strike when the machines take over
Gotta know where to strike when the machines take over
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:44 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Let’s go watch the piece by piece erection of the life-force that will be the downfall of civilization.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:48 pm to CAD703X
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Great job. Using imagination to picture 1000 dump trucks
Just think of Die Hard With a Vengance scaled up. Don’t worry about doing the math on how to get their water needs filled using a three gallon and a five gallon bottle though.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:53 pm to red sox fan 13
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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.
The amount of datacenters going up and operating in N. Va is unreal....
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