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re: META is building the AI data center in Holly Ridge, Louisiana.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:12 pm to White Bear
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:12 pm to White Bear
I think the good folks in Delhi figured out a way to get it to em..
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Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:12 pm to LSUballs
quote:get that Amacker dude on a solution.
I think the good folks in Delhi figured out a way to get it to em..
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:18 pm to member12
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Hearing a lot of rumblings about large data centers going up next to the power plants in West Feliciana and Pointe Coupee parishes. Probably not as big as what Holly Ridge is getting, but big enough to influence the local economy of St. Francisville, Zachary, and New Roads.
The West Feliciana DC will be a meta AI standup as well. I’m hearing larger than Holly Ridge. There is an almost 1400 acre Technology park already zoned near the nuclear plant where it is proposed to go. One thing these data centers need is a ton of water. They use chiller HVAC to cool the server farms. That takes a shite ton of H20.
This post was edited on 11/20/24 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:52 pm to LSUballs
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I heard Country cream almost burned down this weekend.
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That's a tad dramatic. They had a kitchen fire that side lined them for a couple hours. They're slinging burgers and ice cream even as we speak..
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:54 pm to hob
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:57 pm to Teufelhunden
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Gov Landry's tax plan already working!
This is just to cover his Temu Tiger rental.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:44 pm to TripleBarrelBluff1
LA will be seeing a lot of energy projects in next few years especially with Trump winning state is slowly turning around now that JBE is gone but it is like pulling teeth. I do think the tax changes will help business although only a first step a lot of room to go
Posted on 11/20/24 at 9:21 pm to Deuces
And you can party in Vicksburg
Posted on 11/27/24 at 1:14 pm to member12
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I'm not sure why things have been slow there....but Monroe seems to be a natural region for large scale OEM automotive assembly or parts manufacturing. For some reason when all the Asian and German manufacturers started moving on-shore.
I worked for LED when Toyota looked at this site and the Guide plant in Monroe. The Japanese were pretty disgusted at all the litter/blight and were really concerned about finding decent employees after looking at the education stats. It really isn't much of a mystery at all why this area has a lot of poverty.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 1:57 pm to Limitlesstigers
This.
I believe the actual term they used was a severe shortage in ‘intellectual capital’.
I believe the actual term they used was a severe shortage in ‘intellectual capital’.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 2:19 pm to deeprig9
I’m in a 15MW data center and it’s not much computing power at all relative to what customers want. I could easily see 1000MW for combined GPU/CPU needs.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 3:44 pm to lsufan1971
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There is an almost 1400 acre Technology park already zoned near the nuclear plant where it is proposed to go.
So not down by the mill?
Posted on 11/27/24 at 3:59 pm to Limitlesstigers
How’s the Nissan plant between Canton and Madison performed? That area is as challenged for “intellectual capital “ as us. 
This post was edited on 11/27/24 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 11/27/24 at 7:24 pm to boudinman
Why didn't they just build another facility in Kenya?
Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in (60 Minutes)
Is that $82K salary another switch and bait?
Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in (60 Minutes)
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Humans in the loop are found not only in Kenya, but also in India, the Philippines and Venezuela. They're often countries with low wages but large populations — well educated, but unemployed.
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Naftali Wambalo, a father of two with a college degree in mathematics, was elated to find work in Nairobi in the emerging field of artificial intelligence. He is what's known as a "human in the loop": someone sorting, labeling and sifting through reams of data to train and improve AI for companies like Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft and Google.
Is that $82K salary another switch and bait?
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Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.
This post was edited on 11/27/24 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:50 pm to boudinman
There is perhaps no better example for the quote "The meek shall inherit the earth" than this event in Holly Ridge LA
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:58 pm to sta4ever
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What a random place to put this
Orlando was a random place to put Disney when it was built.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:06 pm to biglego
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Cheap land and probably cheap energy
You also need to take water into account (if they’re not air cooled).
I didn’t realize until recently how much clean water these data centers use.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:11 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
Clean water to cool? Like sucking it right out of the aquifer ensuring that BR will start to get drinking water from the river.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:15 pm to lsufan1971
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They use chiller HVAC to cool the server farms.
Processors and components of the servers are now built to withstand much higher temps than "the old days" ten years ago. And water in cooling towers isn't polluting, or draining lakes or rivers, it's just recycled in the loop to displace heat, like the radiator system in a car.
That's at the data center.
At the power plant, different story, I'll defer to other experts on that.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:35 pm to chinese58
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Is that $82K salary another switch and bait?
No matter how nice and modern the facility is, neck down work will pay neck down wages.....unless its a gov job.
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