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Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus
Posted on 12/10/24 at 12:50 am
Posted on 12/10/24 at 12:50 am
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Social media giant Meta has confirmed plans to build a data center in Louisiana.
The company this week announced a $10 billion development in Richland Parish, northeast Louisiana.
“We are excited to announce that Richland Parish, Louisiana, will be home to Meta’s newest data center — our 23rd data center in the United States and 27th in the world,” the company said on Facebook. “This custom-designed four million-square-foot campus will be our largest data center to date. It will play a vital role in accelerating our AI progress.”
Set on the 2,250 acres former Franklin Farm megasite between the municipalities of Rayville and Delhi, about 30 miles east of Monroe, the campus will total more than 4 million sq ft (371,610 sqm). Renderings suggest up to nine buildings are planned. Meta expects site work to begin in December, with construction to continue through 2030.
“Meta is building the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. And this data center will be an important part of that mission,” said Kevin Janda, Meta director of data center strategy.
“Richland Parish in Louisiana is an outstanding location for Meta to call home for a number of reasons. It provides great access to infrastructure, a reliable grid, a business-friendly climate, and wonderful community partners that have helped us move this project forward.”
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The data center boom is getting pretty crazy. Meta's new AI data center in Louisiana has 2 GW+ of power and 4 million sq ft (~371,000 sq meters) of space.
To put that in perspective, data center consumption for the entire US in 2005 was 2.16 GW (source below). Also, a modern GPU consumes about 1kW of power. This is enough for 2 million GPUs which cost in the order of $100b and are within 2x of NVIDIA's annual production of top-end cards.
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This post was edited on 12/10/24 at 12:57 am
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Posted on 12/10/24 at 12:52 am to rickgrimes
What could go wrong putting the computing and communication needs of the world in the hands of Entergy.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 1:01 am to rickgrimes
I bet the mysterious drones will be mighty interested in that site.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 1:11 am to rickgrimes
Louisiana is just going to be one giant data center by the new year. It’s amazing that 2 new $10 billion data centers are being announced every day.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 1:14 am to rickgrimes
My God we get 10 threads a day on this same shite. Come on people.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 1:44 am to fightin tigers
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What could go wrong putting the computing and communication needs of the world in the hands of Entergy.
Hopefully META has plans for its own power generators, backup Tesla batteries, or multiple grid inputs as backup power inputs in one of the 9 buildings planned.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 3:19 am to rickgrimes
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2 GW+
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:00 am to rickgrimes
wir sind auf dem Mond gelandet!
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:22 am to rickgrimes
Seems like a lot of storage to see some man tell everyone he's at the golf course, and for some women to share where she is ordering take out from tonight.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:30 am to kywildcatfanone
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Seems like a lot of storage to see some man tell everyone he's at the golf course, and for some women to share where she is ordering take out from tonight
They aren't using this for existing Facebook. Facebook is losing users every day.
What Meta is doing expanding it's computing resources in an arms race to develop the most superior AI superintelligence. The first company to do it will be able to control the world.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 5:22 am to drizztiger
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Louisiana is just going to be one giant data center by the new year. It’s amazing that 2 new $10 billion data centers are being announced every day.
Our new State motto
"From Dollar Generals to Data Centers, we got it all"
Posted on 12/10/24 at 5:23 am to rickgrimes
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Meta's new AI data center in Louisiana has 2 GW+ of power
To put that in perspective, data center consumption for the entire US in 2005 was 2.16 GW
dont forget boys and girls, replace your washers and driers with subpar pieces of shite and keep your tires properly inflated at all times
Posted on 12/10/24 at 5:26 am to jamiegla1
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dont forget boys and girls, replace your washers and driers with subpar pieces of shite and keep your tires properly inflated at all times
Most people aren’t even capable of understanding your point. But it’s a good one.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 5:48 am to OceanMan
The power consumption required by these data centers is insane. To the point where generally there is less and less rhetoric from the CEO’s of these companies about natural gas. They will want to utilize solar to power these facilities, but there are more challenges to running solar as the energy source than natural gas which already has infrastructure in place to fuel power plants.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:10 am to TigerV
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They will want to utilize solar to power these facilities
No they won't, this facility has a natural gas pipeline running right there and Entergy is building a generating station dedicated to this facility.
Solar is the LEAST efficient way to generate power and it has a very defined life. You will be replacing Solar panels (typically every 8-12 years) and solar never returns the power invested. The only reason you are seeing all these solar farms pop up is for the federal government subsidies, it's a money grab plain and simple.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:41 am to Barneyrb
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No they won't, this facility has a natural gas pipeline running right there and Entergy is building a generating station dedicated to this facility.
Read everything I wrote, they will want to, but natural gas already has the infrastructure in place to provide the power.
I’m bullish on natural gas for this very reason and actively working some projects with possibilities to work directly with data centers to provide power.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 6:45 am to rickgrimes
Going to start seeing some of those “oil field trash making oil field cash” stickers change to “data center baw making data center straw” stickers
Posted on 12/10/24 at 7:00 am to drizztiger
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It’s amazing that 2 new $10 billion data centers are being announced every day.
What and Why are they building so many of these ?
They built one near us which is protected like Fort Knox and has it's own electrical substation.
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Posted on 12/10/24 at 7:05 am to The Torch
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What and Why are they building so many of these ?
Probably cloud. Right now Microsoft and AWS are building data centers for cloud use as fast as they can put them up. I'm currently managing the build of 5 data centers at once for a client.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 7:43 am to Upperdecker
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