Power · Meta Richland Parish Data Center · LA

Meta is paying its share of the costs for the infrastructure needed to support its operations, ensuring that other customers are protected from those expenses.

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Answer

Verdict on the wording above: Company claim as of Release and transcript read 1 November 2026 The only support is the company or its agents. Shown as stated, not adopted. Not a finding that it is true or false. How verdicts work →

Who stated it
Said by Entergy Louisiana · company statement in Entergy Louisiana receives LPSC approval for major infrastructure investments to support Meta's data center and improve reliability · 20 August 2025 →
What the evidence establishes
This is Entergy Louisiana's statement after the Louisiana Public Service Commission approved, 4 to 1 on 20 August 2025, the settlement for three gas plants serving Meta's Richland Parish data center. The settlement described at that session says the Commission does not approve Entergy's contracts with Meta and keeps the right to review them for prudence. Shown as the company's statement, not as a finding either way.
Biggest limitation
The electric service agreement's full terms, what Meta pays, and costs after the 15-year term. The written Order No. U-37425 could not be read; its terms here come from the session transcript.
Checked
1 November 2026 · Next review: A Commission prudence review of Entergy Louisiana's contracts with Meta, or public terms of the electric service agreement

Evidence

What the evidence supports

The Commission transcript for 20 August 2025 records Docket U-37425: Entergy's application for three combined cycle units totaling 2,262 megawatts, a new 500-kV line and substations to serve a hyperscale data center owned by a Meta subsidiary. Staff described the settlement terms: construction costs subject to prudence review when the plants enter service, and 'the Commission expressly does not approve any of Entergy's contractual arrangements with Meta and reserves its right to fully review those agreements for prudence'. The roll call was four to one. Entergy witnesses at the session described a 15-year service agreement and said the deal was designed so Meta pays enough to cover the generation it causes; that is company testimony, not a Commission finding. No record read shows Meta's payments or the full contract terms.

Still unknown

The electric service agreement's full terms, what Meta pays, and costs after the 15-year term. The written Order No. U-37425 could not be read; its terms here come from the session transcript.

Sources

  1. Entergy Louisiana receives LPSC approval for major infrastructure investments to support Meta's data center and improve reliability → Company

    Exact location Fourth paragraph, quotation from the Entergy Louisiana president and CEO.

    What it supports The statement checked.

    Publication date · Accessed

  2. Transcript of the LPSC Business and Executive Open Session, 20 August 2025 → Gov. record

    Exact location Exhibit 5, Docket U-37425, transcript pages 5-7 (staff summary of settlement terms) and page 92 (roll call).

    What it supports Approval of the settlement four to one, and that the Commission did not approve Entergy's contracts with Meta.

    Publication date unavailable · Accessed

Review details

Scope

Unit
cost responsibility for new generation and transmission
Geography
Entergy Louisiana service to Meta's Richland Parish data center (Docket U-37425)
Period
statement and Commission vote 20 August 2025
As of
Release and transcript read 1 November 2026
Confidence
medium — Entergy release; Commission session transcript of 20 August 2025, in which the Commission expressly did not approve the contracts with Meta. The full contract terms were not available in the records reviewed.
Kind
Public statement checked

Conflicting evidence

None recorded when this claim was checked. That records what we logged, not a finding that no conflicting record exists.

Chronology

  1. Stated by Entergy Louisiana
  2. Published — Entergy Louisiana receives LPSC approval for major infrastructure investments to support Meta's data center and improve reliability
  3. 2 sources retrieved
  4. Checked by DataCenterData
  5. Date not established Next review: A Commission prudence review of Entergy Louisiana's contracts with Meta, or public terms of the electric service agreement

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