{
  "name": "Louisiana AI data center LPSC docket tracker",
  "version": "2026-05-15",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-05-15",
  "count": 4,
  "dockets": [
    {
      "docket": "U-37425",
      "title": "Entergy Louisiana generation and transmission resources for service to a single North Louisiana customer project",
      "shortTitle": "Meta Phase 1 / Laidley LLC",
      "utility": "Entergy Louisiana",
      "customer": "Laidley LLC / Meta Platforms",
      "project": "Meta Hyperion, Richland Parish",
      "status": "Approved",
      "dateOpened": "2024-11-04",
      "datePublished": "2024-11-08",
      "hearingOrOrder": "Settlement approved at the August 20, 2025 LPSC Business and Executive Session; order document dated August 29, 2025.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/DocketDetails?docketId=32146",
      "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/DocumentDetails?documentId=176967",
      "ratepayerIssue": "Whether the generation, transmission, solar procurement, collateral, and contract-term structure keeps Meta-specific infrastructure costs from being shifted to existing Entergy Louisiana customers.",
      "plainEnglish": "This is the first Meta Hyperion power docket. It approved the initial generation and transmission package needed to serve Meta's Richland Parish campus.",
      "whyItMatters": "It is the canonical LPSC record for Meta Phase 1 and the source most likely to answer searches for Entergy Louisiana data center power, Meta Hyperion interconnection, and Richland Parish ratepayer protections.",
      "nextWatch": "Track compliance filings, cost-allocation exhibits, transmission construction updates, and any later true-up or rider filings tied to the approved settlement."
    },
    {
      "docket": "U-37882",
      "title": "Entergy Louisiana certification of generation and transmission resources and other relief for Meta expansion",
      "shortTitle": "Meta Phase 2 / Evest LLC / Project Evest",
      "utility": "Entergy Louisiana",
      "customer": "Evest LLC / Meta Platforms",
      "project": "Meta Hyperion expansion, Richland Parish",
      "status": "Open",
      "dateOpened": "2026-03-26",
      "datePublished": "2026-03-27",
      "hearingOrOrder": "Open as of May 15, 2026; no final order posted in the LPSC docket details page.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/DocketDetails?docketId=32728",
      "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/ViewFile?fileId=kt5JixLAYFY%3D",
      "ratepayerIssue": "Whether the expanded electric service agreement, collateral package, and asset end-of-term treatment make Meta pay the full cost of new generation, transmission, storage, and interconnection infrastructure.",
      "plainEnglish": "This is the Meta expansion docket. Entergy describes the package as seven additional gas combined-cycle plants totaling more than 5,200 MW, roughly 240 miles of 500 kV transmission, storage, nuclear uprates, and up to 2,500 MW of Meta-funded renewables.",
      "whyItMatters": "It is the main docket behind queries for Project Evest, Meta Hyperion 5GW Louisiana, the Lightning Amendment, and whether Meta's expansion leaves any tail-end cost risk for ratepayers.",
      "nextWatch": "Track testimony, settlement posture, contested issues, intervention activity, and the eventual LPSC certification vote or order."
    },
    {
      "docket": "U-37853",
      "title": "Entergy Louisiana request for approval to construct Waterford 6 Power Station and Westlake Power Station",
      "shortTitle": "Waterford 6 / Westlake generation",
      "utility": "Entergy Louisiana",
      "customer": "System resource / large-load growth",
      "project": "Waterford 6 and Westlake Power Station",
      "status": "Open",
      "dateOpened": "2026-02-24",
      "datePublished": "2026-02-27",
      "hearingOrOrder": "Open as of May 15, 2026; no final certification order posted in the LPSC docket details page.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/DocketDetails?docketId=32689",
      "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/ViewFile?fileId=hsljNiQroZw%3D",
      "ratepayerIssue": "Whether the new combined-cycle generation is treated as a broad system resource, a large-load-serving resource, or some blended recovery structure.",
      "plainEnglish": "This docket is not a single-customer Meta docket. It covers Entergy's request to build Waterford 6 and Westlake generation resources that sit in the broader Louisiana large-load power stack.",
      "whyItMatters": "It is the control docket for searches about Entergy Louisiana peak power MW, Waterford 6, Westlake Power Station, and the generation side of the AI-load buildout.",
      "nextWatch": "Track certification schedule, cost-recovery design, in-service date exhibits, and any linkage between the resources and hyperscale customer agreements."
    },
    {
      "docket": "X-37921",
      "title": "Repository docket for LPSC Large Load Additions Non-Binding Guidelines",
      "shortTitle": "Large-load non-binding guidelines",
      "utility": "Louisiana Public Service Commission",
      "customer": "All large-load customers",
      "project": "Large Load Additions framework",
      "status": "Repository",
      "dateOpened": "2026-05-06",
      "datePublished": "2026-05-08",
      "hearingOrOrder": "Informational repository docket; LPSC states that no interventions will be accepted.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/DocketDetails?docketId=32779",
      "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://www.lpsc.louisiana.gov/docs/general/Non-Binding_Guidelines_for_Potential_Large_Load_Customers.pdf",
      "ratepayerIssue": "The guidelines define the questions utilities and large-load customers must answer before new load is allowed to move quickly through the regulatory process.",
      "plainEnglish": "This is the public repository for the LPSC's large-load guidelines. It is the framework used to evaluate expedited filings like U-37882.",
      "whyItMatters": "It is the control record for searches about LPSC large load guidelines, Lightning Amendment filings, non-binding guidelines, and AI data center ratepayer protection.",
      "nextWatch": "Track whether future LPSC orders cite the guidelines, modify them, or convert them into binding tariff or certification requirements."
    }
  ]
}