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re: Louisiana earns Gold Shovel Award for economic development
Posted on 8/14/26 at 10:49 pm to tigger4ever
Posted on 8/14/26 at 10:49 pm to tigger4ever
Can you give a more definitive answer?
7000 locals?
12 locals?
7000 locals?
12 locals?
Posted on 8/14/26 at 10:55 pm to IndianPower
It takes less than 50 people to run most data centers
Posted on 8/14/26 at 10:56 pm to tigger4ever
quote:how many are legal?
7000 are working on the site now.
Posted on 8/14/26 at 10:57 pm to Cosmo
They just drive from Broussard and Youngsville
Posted on 8/14/26 at 11:00 pm to GreenRockTiger
A good portion are not. I have a bunch of illegal friends working there and Canton
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:11 pm to jmarto1
Has anyone updated this since Space X launched their announcement?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:22 pm to GeorgeReymond
Any of those deals actually going to bring revenue to the State? Or are the tax incentives so one sided that Louisiana won’t see a dime from these companies for twenty years, at which point they will all up and leave anyway?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:30 pm to jmarto1
quote:It takes about two of these people to wreck most data centers:
It takes less than 50 people to run most data centers
Posted on 9/16/26 at 9:27 am to cgrand
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Donaldsonville is long lost…losing population and it’s almost 80% black
Donaldsonville never recovered from the Union shelling it during the Civil War. The final nail in the coffin was when the levees were constructed cutting off Bayou Lafouche from the Mississippi River, rendering Donaldsonville no longer strategically important for shipping. That was nearly 100 years ago.
Donaldsonville is the city that never was, the ultimate “coulda been a contender”. Donaldsonville was nearly the state capital, the home of LSU, the location of Exxon Mobile, the gateway to Disneyworld, and the nearest city to the site of a great airport, among literally thousands of other projects that died on the vibe because a handful of stodgy landowners didn’t want them.
This post was edited on 9/16/26 at 9:34 am
Posted on 9/16/26 at 11:25 am to GeorgeReymond
Huge win for local development! Getting massive capital investments like those LNG facilities and steel plants is great for job creation, regardless of all the political noise surrounding these industrial projects.

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