Louisiana data centers: what the public record shows.

These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.

• Economic development incentives — Checked
  • LED publishes no list of entities certified as approved data centers under Act 730, so the certified-recipient roster could not be enumerated.
  • Louisiana Department of Revenue direct-payment-number issuances under R.S. 47:303.1(B)(5) were not searched.

  Selected records

  • Central Louisiana Secures $3.6 Billion Applied Digital AI Factory Campus · Louisiana Economic Development
  • Amazon Selects Louisiana for $12 Billion Data Center Campuses in Major U.S. Expansion · Louisiana Economic Development
  • Amazon Grows Northwest Louisiana Planned Investment to $18 Billion With New Shreveport Campus · Louisiana Economic Development
• Utility commission and large-load records — Checked
  • The LPSC public file viewer is fileId-addressed and was reached only through search-result links; the docket index for U-37425 and U-37882 was not browsed, so most filings in both dockets are unread.
  • One LPSC filing could not be retrieved because the response was too large to retrieve in the current review.
  • No large-load tariff or electric service agreement text was read; the ESA in U-37425 is referenced but not yet reviewed directly.

  Selected records

  • LPSC Order Number U-37425, Entergy Louisiana, LLC, ex parte — Application for approval of generation and transmission resources in connection with service to a single customer for a project in North Louisiana · Louisiana Public Service Commission
  • LPSC Order Number U-37882, Entergy Louisiana, LLC, ex parte — Application for certification of generation and transmission resources and for other relief · Louisiana Public Service Commission
  • Direct Testimony of Phillip R. May on behalf of Entergy Louisiana, LLC, Public Redacted Version, LPSC Docket No. U-37882 (filed as Docket No. U-____) · Louisiana Public Service Commission
• Environmental and construction permits — Partly checked
  • LDEQ EDMS full-text search is an interactive portal and was not queried, so air, water and stormwater permits held for the data center campuses themselves were not reached.
  • No permit number, Agency Interest number or activity number was obtained for any Louisiana data center or for Franklin Farms Power Station.
  • Parish-level building, grading and floodplain permits were not searched.

  Selected records

  • LDEQ Public Notices (current draft and final permit notices) · Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
  • LDEQ public hearing notice: Entergy Louisiana, LLC - Franklin Farms Power Station · Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
• Local planning, assessor and map records — Partly checked
  • Caddo Parish, Richland Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Rapides Parish and City of Shreveport planning and zoning case files were not reached.
  • No parish assessor or GIS parcel record was queried, so no parcel ID in the current research record is verbatim from an assessor.
  • The Bossier Parish record gives no plat, case or ordinance number, so record_identifier is null for that evidence.

  Selected records

  • Police Jury Awards Major Infrastructure Contracts, Approves Final Plat for Amazon Data Center Technology Park · Bossier Parish Police Jury
• Tax abatements and development agreements — Partly checked
  • No executed PILOT, cooperative endeavour or development agreement was located or read for any Louisiana data center.
  • Louisiana's Industrial Tax Exemption Program contracts are filed through FastLane NextGen and the Board of Commerce and Industry agendas were not yet reviewed directly.
  • Hut 8's reported $16 million water infrastructure agreement with West Feliciana Parish was not confirmed against a parish record.

  Selected records

  • Act No. 730, 2024 Regular Session (House Bill No. 827) — enrolled, data center sales and use tax rebate · Louisiana State Legislature
  • Industrial Tax Exemption — Incentives · Louisiana Economic Development
• Operator disclosures — Partly checked
  • Amazon Web Services, Meta, Applied Digital and STACK Infrastructure location or newsroom pages were not yet reviewed directly individually; their facts here come from Louisiana Economic Development announcements instead.
  • Colocation operator pages (DartPoints, EdgeConneX, Cogent, Fogo) were not yet reviewed directly; those research leads rest on the Compute Atlas extract.

  Selected records

  • River Bend — Hut 8 data center campus page · Hut 8 Corp.
• Open datasets and directories — Checked
  • No commercial directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was consulted, so colocation coverage rests on one dataset.

  Selected records

  • Compute Atlas licensed directory, state extract · Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)
• Closures, withdrawals and former names — Partly checked
  • No city zoning or permit file was found for the withdrawn New Orleans East application, so the withdrawal is uncorroborated by a primary record.
  • No statewide sweep for closed, demolished or renamed Louisiana data centers was performed.
  • The text of the adopted interim zoning district and any extension of it were not read.

  Selected records

  • New Orleans City Council Approves Motions to Study Data Center Zoning and Temporary Restrictions · New Orleans City Council
• News and other discovery — Partly checked
  • No systematic news sweep was performed for Louisiana data center announcements outside the projects already covered.

  Selected records

  • Council bans data centers for a year after citizen concerns · Verite News