Louisiana stories lead this brief. More than 2,500 customers lost power in Mid-City on Thursday, marking at least the third such outage this week for Entergy New Orleans customers. Nearly 2,500 Mid-City homes were affected according to Entergy outage maps. Applied Digital agreed to a $4 million community benefit deal for the Town of Boyce tied to the Delta Forge 1 data center. Opponents described the power needs of a Meta data center in Richland Parish as absurd while Entergy Louisiana stated the concerns are misguided. All items were newly tracked within roughly the last 72 hours. Source links are listed in the evidence section.
Key Louisiana AI updates
- More than 2,500 lose power in Mid-City on Thursday (news, 2026-10-15) wwltv.com
- Nearly 2,500 Mid-City homes temporarily lost power on Thursday afternoon, according to Entergy New Orleans (news, 2026-10-15) nola.com
- Applied Digital agrees to $4 million community benefit deal for Boyce tied to Delta Forge 1 data center (news, 2026-10-14) kalb.com
- Opponents call Meta data center power needs in Richland Parish 'absurd'; Entergy Louisiana says concerns are misguided (news, 2026-10-13) kalb.com
Sources
- [wwltv.com More than 2,500 lose power in Mid-City on Thursday](wwltv.com)
- [nola.com Nearly 2,500 people lost power in Mid-City, according to Entergy outage maps](nola.com)
- [kalb.com Applied Digital agrees to $4 million community benefit deal for Boyce](kalb.com)
- [kalb.com Massive power needs of Meta data center in Richland Parish are ‘absurd,’ opponents say](kalb.com)