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Meta's Louisiana data center sparks $3B electricity upgrade. But who pays?

Meta's Louisiana data center sparks $3B electricity upgrade. But who pays?
business9/25/2025

Meta is racing to construct its largest data center yet, a $10 billion facility in northeast Louisiana as big as 70 football fields and requiring more than twice the electricity of New Orleans.

HOLLY RIDGE, La. (AP) — In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the pea... [5448 chars]