Richland Parish, Louisiana is located in the northeastern part of the state adjacent to Texas's borders and sits within the Mississippi River basin, which influences regional water availability for industrial cooling infrastructure.
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In Louisiana, Entergy locked in $2.65 billion in customer savings over 20 years to serve Meta's Richland Parish facility, which targets 5 GW of capacity with 2,500 MW of new solar and nuclear support.
Meta's $27 billion Richland Parish, Louisiana campus comes with a structured deal funding 240 miles of transmission, 5,200+ MW of gas generation, battery storage, and $2.65 billion in projected ratepayer benefits over 20 years.
Meta's Project Hyperion in Richland Parish, Louisiana, is the largest single-campus datacenter under active construction in the US: 2,250 acres, $10 billion, 4,000 workers on site, 2 GW initial power scaling to 5 GW, with Entergy Louisiana building a dedicated 2,200 MW natural gas plant ($3.2 billion) to serve one customer.