Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center Into A $50 Billion Megaproject
The AI arms race is usually scored in benchmark charts and GPU counts, but every so often it shows up as a teacher's bonus check in rural Louisiana. Meta announced on Monday that its data center campus in Richland Parish will grow to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, with investment in the site now topping $50 billion. That ranks the project among the largest AI infrastructure buildouts on the planet, and it is landing in a community of roughly 20,000 people.
Some history helps frame how fast this thing has ballooned. When Meta broke ground in December 2024, the project reportedly carried a price tag of around $10 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberglater said the supercluster, codenamed Hyperion, would eventually scale to 5 gigawatts, and by October 2025 the company had formed a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital committing roughly $27 billion in development costs. Nine months later, the...
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