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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Meta Hyperion.
Exact source coordinates (provider label); this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Delhi vicinity · Richland County · Louisiana
- Official metro area
- Monroe, LA
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 2,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000937
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Entergy Louisiana
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Reported water use
- 5 million gallons per day (source-reported)
- Land area
- 2,250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $10 billion
- Announced jobs
- 500 permanent · 5,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- January 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Louisiana Act 730 data center equipment sales/use tax exemption (20 years, state and local) · Louisiana · 2025 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Entergy Louisiana is building new natural-gas combined-cycle generation (7+ units, 5,200+ MW) to serve the load, plus Meta committed up to 2,500 MW of new solar; Meta pledges to match total use with 100% clean and renewable energy. The gas buildout and its ratepayer impact are contested by advocates.
Water. Sierra Club reporting states ~5 million gallons/day (~2 billion/year). Cooling type not disclosed in primary sources. Meta pledges 100% water restoration by 2030 via a 316-acre restoration project with Resource Environmental Solutions.
Community. Local farmers and elected officials welcome road, hospital, and school investment; Sierra Club, ratepayer advocates, and The Lens raise concerns about the Entergy gas buildout's burden on customers, water use, and whether operational jobs go to locals. No documented litigation in Richland Parish.
What the source record says
A second, larger Meta data center development at the same Richland Parish complex is in progress under the internal name 'Project Evest' (Evest LLC, a Meta subsidiary and Laidley affiliate), the subject of a new, not-yet-docketed LPSC certification application (Direct Testimony of Laura K. Beauchamp on behalf of Entergy Louisiana, filed March 2026, public-redacted version). The testimony states Evest 'seeks to develop adjacent to Laidley's data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, that was the subject of the proceedings in LPSC Docket No. U-37425' (i.e., the already-tracked Hyperion project). To serve Evest, Entergy is seeking certification of seven new 754 MW 1x1 CCCT generators (four near the Richland Parish site, three sited near the existing Big Cajun site in Pointe Coupee Parish) plus battery storage co-located at the Bogalusa West Solar and Cypress Harvest Solar facilities -- on top of the three CCCTs (Franklin Farms 1&2, Waterford 5) already approved for Hyperion itself. Investigative coverage (The Lens, 2026-04-14) puts the combined Hyperion+Evest generation build at 10 new gas plants, 7,000+ MW, and $16B+ in new fossil-fuel infrastructure serving this one customer, and reports the underlying Entergy-Meta commercial agreements are not fully public. This is DISTINCT NEW information not yet reflected in the existing record's notes/community fields (which per the roster are already populated) -- flagging for maintainer review rather than as a field-merge, since 'community' on this record is locked (already has a value) and it is not yet certain whether Evest will ship as a second facility record or as an update to this one once its own docket number and site-specific coordinates are public.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-01 · source-reported proposed
Announced as part of Meta's $65B 2025 capex plan; described as a 2-gigawatt AI data center campus
- 2025 · source-reported under construction
Site preparation and construction underway
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Meta to build AI data center in Louisiana — Reuters · Reuters
- Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion AI-Optimized Data Center · Louisiana Economic Development
- Richland Parish Data Center · Meta
- Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks · Fortune
- Entergy Louisiana announces new agreement with Meta · Entergy Louisiana
- In Rural Louisiana, Meta's New Data Center Promises Growth — But at What Cost? · Sierra Club
- Entergy Louisiana receives LPSC approval for major infrastructure investments to support Meta's data center · Entergy
- Direct Testimony of Laura K. Beauchamp, Entergy Louisiana (Project Evest), March 2026 — seven additional 754 MW CCCTs and 400 MW of battery storage · Louisiana Public Service Commission
- Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center · Meta
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-hyperion-richland-parish-la. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000937
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Delhi vicinity, LA · Richland (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: Meta
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: January 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-01 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 2,250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 2,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Entergy Louisiana
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
- Reported water use: 5 million gallons per day (source-reported)
Whether this is metered use, a permit limit or a request is not established; see the provider water note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $10 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 500 permanent · 5,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Louisiana Act 730 data center equipment sales/use tax exemption (20 years, state and local) · Louisiana · 2025
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-15
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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