Meta expands Louisiana data center to 5 gigawatts, investment crosses $50 billion
Meta said the expanded campus will support 7,500 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent roles as it builds AI infrastructure.
- On Monday, Meta announced it will expand its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to a 5GW facility costing over $50 billion, making it the company's largest data center project.
- Previously, the project was planned as a 2GW facility costing $27 billion through a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital Inc. to manage the buildout and facility operations.
- Since construction began in December 2024, local businesses in Louisiana have received over $1.6 billion in contracts from Meta. The company pledged over $1 billion for infrastructure improvements including roads and water systems.
- Bloomberg reported Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, potentially selling access to 'raw' computing capacity to outsiders akin to neocloud competitors like CoreWeave Inc.
- Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to spend at least $600 billion on US infrastructure projects over the next few years to achieve his goal of AI superintelligence.
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Meta says it will spend an extra $40 billion on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana in its quest for more compute power
Meta's 4,000 acre Hyperion data center will receive an additional $40 billion investmentMeta says the project has been a huge benefit for the local community of Richland ParishMultiple groups and local residents have criticized the massive campus and its energy sourcingMeta has announced that an additional $40 billion will be used to fund the construction of its enormous 4,000 acre data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana.This additional…
Meta is expanding its investment in the massive artificial intelligence (AI) data center under construction in Louisiana to over $50 billion, more than double its original plan. According to Meta on the 13th (local time), the company has decided to expand the computing capacity of its AI data center, "Hyperion," currently under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts (GW). This is double the initially planned 2 GW or more.
Landry says Louisiana is leaning into the ‘next industrial revolution’ with data center expansion - The Mexico Ledger
Meta is building what would be the world’s largest data center in north Louisiana. (Rendering provided by Meta)Gov. Jeff Landry announced on Monday a major data center expansion in Richland Parish that he said positions Louisiana to lean into the “next industrial revolution.” “The next generation of economic growth will not simply be measured in barrels of oil or tons of steel,” Landry said at the Baton Rouge announcement of the expansion of t…
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KTBSLandry says Louisiana is leaning into the ‘next industrial revolution’ with data center expansion
Meta is building what would be the world’s largest data center in north Louisiana. (Rendering provided by Meta)Gov. Jeff Landry announced on Monday a major data center expansion in Richland Parish that he said positions Louisiana to lean into the “next industrial revolution.” “The next generation of economic growth will not simply be measured in barrels of oil or tons of steel,” Landry said at the Baton Rouge announcement of the expansion of t…
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Meta seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. On Monday, the social networking singularity said it would spend $50 billion to expand its Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts. The news comes less than a week after a report broke claiming that Meta was actively exploring options to offload its excess compute capacity to other AI labs. So, which is it, Zuck? Did you invest too much or too little …
Meta expands Richland Parish data center, now $50-billion project
Meta announced plans today to expand its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Richland Parish, increasing the company’s initial investment by $40 billion, more than doubling the size of the data center’s campus and creating thousands of new jobs.
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