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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 8:54 pm to CaptainsWafer
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:54 pm to CaptainsWafer
It's more dump trucks than I thought the world had.
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Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:19 pm to Captain Rumbeard
My buddy is a construction manager on the site. He said the infrastructure for the nearest city cannot handle the trucks. They are paying handsomely. Sounded like oil field services type of situation where someone could make a mint providing support services like man camps and catering.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:29 pm to CalcuttaTigah
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He said the infrastructure for the nearest city cannot handle the trucks. They are paying handsomely. Sounded like oil field serv
Sheeeit. Bee Bayou got this ..
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:50 pm to GrammarKnotsi
I'm a Hilton man myself. Which is annoying because whatever the hell is going on at Fort Polk right now has them all locked down and has for a month.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:54 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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I'm a Hilton man myself.
There’s a nice new Hilton in downtown Monroe.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:54 pm to LSUballs
What kind of permanent jobs will be around after they finish building this?
I assume groundskeepers and maintenance workers? Will there be like a full-time IT staff for while people just be flying in for that sort of stuff?
I assume groundskeepers and maintenance workers? Will there be like a full-time IT staff for while people just be flying in for that sort of stuff?
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:55 pm to Tarps99
Yes. Many times.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:56 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.
What’s wrong with using water? It’s not like it mysteriously disappears after they use it.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:14 pm to FieldEngineer
Exactly. It's like they don't understand how their car stays cool without a water hose attached to it.
And of course there will be permanent jobs related to this. You have to keep all that infrastructure up and running. You have to keep those computers working. You have to feed all those people. You have to remove their waste. You have to do their taxes. You have to feed them.
Everyone around that place is selling their house for a ridiculous premium and it's not because nobody is going to live there after it's built.
And of course there will be permanent jobs related to this. You have to keep all that infrastructure up and running. You have to keep those computers working. You have to feed all those people. You have to remove their waste. You have to do their taxes. You have to feed them.
Everyone around that place is selling their house for a ridiculous premium and it's not because nobody is going to live there after it's built.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:27 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Everything has upsides and downsides.
Building these massive AI centers might harm the environment and raise our water and power bills, but at least it will allow billionaires to monitor everything we do more efficiently and slash their workforces faster.
Building these massive AI centers might harm the environment and raise our water and power bills, but at least it will allow billionaires to monitor everything we do more efficiently and slash their workforces faster.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:37 pm to Obtuse1
There’s going to be large increase in usage of
Machinery for land clearing
Copper to run all the suitable connections
Nuclear power
Aggregate materials to make concrete.
Generators
Power Transformers
Machinery for land clearing
Copper to run all the suitable connections
Nuclear power
Aggregate materials to make concrete.
Generators
Power Transformers
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:38 pm to Captain Rumbeard
cousin of mine lives about 20 mins away from it. he said the roads are going to crap from all the overloaded truck traffic
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:50 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The plaintiff attorneys are already setting up files for the impending litigation
Posted on 10/3/25 at 1:51 pm to mack the knife
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cousin of mine lives about 20 mins away from it. he said the roads are going to crap from all the overloaded truck traffic
Anytime you do dirt work. Dump trucks cause havoc on the roads of this state.
All the work on Terrebonne’s levees tore up the the roads there, but at least they factored that into some projects and allotted extra money for road work after the project was completed.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 2:40 pm to Tarps99
Yea, our roads were shite before Meta. And shitty roads quickly become a lot shittier with a never ending barrage of dumb trucks flying down them. There are dump trucks from just about every state in the lower 48 out here dump trucking.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 2:54 pm to LSUballs
quote:DOT Smokey ought to be feeding’ well.
There are dump trucks from just about every state in the lower 48 out here dump trucking.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 3:36 pm to BZ504
I’m hearing there may be an NBA expansion team coming to Bawcomville.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 3:38 pm to Fun Bunch
Have another upvote haha
I live in NELA. You’re not missing much
I live in NELA. You’re not missing much
Posted on 10/3/25 at 3:40 pm to red sox fan 13
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Sucks for any nearby people who previously enjoyed a quiet rural life.
sucks for them, and it really sucks for all the wildlife and ecosystem it annihilates. And for what? fricking AI datacenter? The future is bleak.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 3:54 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Grok drew me a picture.
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