Start here: the tracked buildout in one paragraph.
LouisianAI separates source-backed campus records, source-backed multi-campus programs, and visible watch rows. The core denominator below has a $65.6B+ disclosed-capex floor across 4records; published site MW is counted only where a source discloses a number. Generation and grid-enabling projects remain in the LPSC docket trail, not the campus totals. Hut 8's up-to-$10B Phase I ceiling stays visible on its record but outside the statewide floor.
The Louisiana AI infrastructure tracker is LouisianAI's source-cited register of every tracked AI and hyperscale data center project in the state: operator, parish, status, capex, peak MW, timeline posture, confidence level, and links to project-level evidence.
The Louisiana data center timeline starts with Meta Hyperion under construction in Richland Parish, Amazon and STACK's multi-campus northwest Louisiana buildout after the March 2026 Bossier final plat, Hut 8 River Bend's 245 MW Phase I lease plus parish water-system work, and Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 after its January 2026 groundbreaking and mid-2027 operations target.
Louisiana data center source records disclose 5.76 GW of site power across 3 records. Amazon/STACK's $12B multi-campus program has no public MW figure, so it is not guessed; generation, transmission, storage, and renewable projects are tracked separately in the LPSC docket trail rather than added to campus power.
Louisiana's core tracker denominator has a $65.6B+ source-backed disclosed-capex floor: $53.6B+ in named campus records and $12.0B in the Amazon/STACK multi-campus program, counted once. Hut 8's up-to-$10.0B Phase I ceiling is visible separately and not added to that floor. Watch rows and grid-enabling projects are intentionally excluded.
This source-backed AI-buildout denominator does not mix operational colocation directories into its campus totals. The largest current AI records are Meta in Richland Parish, Amazon/STACK in Caddo and Bossier, Hut 8 in West Feliciana, and Applied Digital in Rapides; separate colocation coverage needs its own project-level source trail.
Meta Hyperion is under construction in Richland Parish in 2026. It is the largest tracked Louisiana AI data center, with a confirmed 5 GW build-out costing more than $50 billion, announced by Meta on July 13, 2026.
The Louisiana operator set is Meta in Richland Parish, Amazon Web Services with STACK in Caddo and Bossier Parishes, Hut 8 at River Bend in West Feliciana Parish, Applied Digital at Delta Forge 1 in Rapides Parish, plus operational colocation operators in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Louisiana data center water and environmental impact is project-specific: cooling design, permitted withdrawals, discharge path, parish water agreements, and LDEQ/LPSC records. Meta Hyperion has the most visible water-use record; Amazon has regional water-infrastructure commitments; Hut 8 and Applied Digital require site-level permit tracking.
LouisianAI keeps unconfirmed site-control cases and parish or city policy moves off the canonical tracker until operator, permit, or utility records harden. The current dated holding surface covers Resilient Technology Park, State Line / Blanchard, the New Orleans data-center interim zoning district, and St. Charles Parish's data-center zoning code.
Bayou Metal's Slidell line for HII's AI-enabled ROMULUS unmanned surface vessel program is a Louisiana autonomy and manufacturing signal, not a data-center row. We track those items in the ecosystem Watch Wire until they become canonical campus, docket, or operator records.
Interactive breakdowns of the source-backed statewide denominator. Watch rows and grid-enabling projects are deliberately omitted so the charts do not double-count a multi-campus program or treat a generation proposal as data-center demand.
Values use published tracker capex and MW fields.