Meta's Richland Parish campus is a $50B-class AI-optimized data center build — Meta confirmed a 5 GW build-out on July 13, 2026 — with roughly 4 million square feet across 2,250 acres. Phase I power is approved, while Entergy's Phase II expansion package remains under review at the LPSC.
What matters first for Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
Meta Hyperion is the under-construction Richland Parish AI campus behind the Hyperion, Project Sucre, and Meta Richland Parish aliases. The first checks are status, LPSC power dockets, water records, source-backed scale, and the confirmed 5 GW / $50B+ build-out announced July 13, 2026.
Interactive parish, utility, transmission, and water layers load as this section enters view.
Meta Hyperion data center status 2026: the campus is under construction in Richland Parish, with about 2,250 acres, roughly 4 million square feet, and a confirmed 5 GW build-out costing more than $50 billion, announced July 13, 2026. LouisianAI treats Meta Hyperion data center Louisiana, Meta Hyperion Richland Parish, Hyperion, Project Sucre, Meta Richland Parish Data Center, Meta Hyperion, Meta Hyperion 5GW Louisiana, and Richland Parish Data Center as aliases for this single campus. The canonical local profile is this page: /data-centers/meta-hyperion.
Meta Hyperion 5GW Louisiana refers to the confirmed 5 GW build-out of the same Richland Parish campus, announced July 13, 2026, with roughly 2 GW expected by 2030 and the full campus around 2032. The external entity graph points to Wikidata Q138001063 and the Wikipedia Hyperion article; Meta's official Richland Parish page and Entergy's LPSC-approval release are the source-backed controls for campus identity and utility service.
Meta Hyperion data center Louisiana is Meta's source-tracked Richland Parish AI campus. LouisianAI canonicalizes this query to /data-centers/meta-hyperion and connects it to the same LPSC, power, water, Wikidata, and Wikipedia evidence as Project Sucre and the Meta Richland Parish Data Center.
Meta Hyperion Richland Parish is the same campus as Meta Hyperion data center Louisiana: an under-construction Meta AI data center near Rayville in Richland Parish, Louisiana, served by Entergy Louisiana and tracked through LPSC data-center dockets.
As of August 5, 2026, Meta Hyperion is under construction in Richland Parish. LouisianAI tracks it as Meta's largest Louisiana AI data center: about 2,250 acres, roughly 4 million square feet, and a confirmed 5 GW build-out costing more than $50 billion (announced July 13, 2026), while Entergy's Phase II package remains under LPSC review.
The latest watch items are the August 2025 LPSC approval for Hyperion's first Entergy package, Entergy's March 27, 2026 Phase II agreement with Meta, Richland Parish construction and water records, and the Wikidata/Wikipedia entity bridge for Hyperion.
Project Sucre Meta data center is Meta Hyperion, the Meta AI data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. LouisianAI treats Project Sucre, Hyperion, Meta Richland Parish Data Center, and Richland Parish Data Center as aliases for the same campus.
Meta Hyperion 5GW Louisiana refers to the confirmed 5 GW build-out of Meta's Richland Parish campus, announced July 13, 2026, with roughly 2 GW expected by 2030 and the full campus around 2032. Entergy's Phase 2 filing describes more than 5,200 MW of additional generation, 500 kV transmission, storage, nuclear uprates, and renewables tied to the expansion package.
Richland Parish Data Center Meta is the same campus as Meta Hyperion: a Meta-backed AI data center build near Rayville in Richland Parish, served by Entergy Louisiana and tracked through LPSC data center dockets.
The Hyperion data center entity is connected to Wikidata Q138001063 and the Wikipedia Hyperion data center article. LouisianAI uses sameAs markup to tie the canonical local profile to those public knowledge-graph records.
The biggest data center in Louisiana is Meta Hyperion in Richland Parish. It is Meta's largest announced data center project, with more than $50 billion of announced investment, roughly 2,250 acres of campus footprint, and a confirmed 5 GW build-out.
The largest data center Louisiana 2026 answer is Meta Hyperion in Richland Parish. It is the same campus as Project Sucre, Meta Richland Parish Data Center, and Richland Parish Data Center, with LPSC power dockets, Meta's official Richland Parish page, and the Hyperion Wikidata/Wikipedia entity bridge attached to this profile.
Meta's Rayville buildout is, on its own, larger by load than any previous Entergy Louisiana industrial-customer addition. Three structural features explain why the project moves so quickly: agricultural-only displacement (no legacy heavy load), co-built substation with Bayou Power Station, and a workforce arithmetic that compels Meta to absorb training cost directly.
| Claim | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Capex range | $50B+ [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | Meta |
| Power capacity | 5,000 MW [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | Meta |
| Site size | 2,250 acres · 4,000,000 sq ft [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | Meta |
| Jobs | 500 permanent · 5,000 construction [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | Meta |
| Louisiana incentive posture | Act 730 sales/use tax exemption and local PILOT structures require document-level verification. [15] | Louisiana Legislature |
| Sales/use tax and PILOT framework | Louisiana Act 730 and local PILOT structures are tracked as separate legal/economic artifacts. [15] | Louisiana Legislature |
| Entity aliases | Meta Hyperion data center Louisiana, Meta Hyperion Richland Parish, Hyperion, Project Sucre, Meta Richland Parish Data Center, Meta Hyperion, Meta Hyperion 5GW Louisiana, and Richland Parish Data Center all refer to the same Meta campus in Richland Parish. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | Meta |
Entergy LA · Verified September 23, 2026
Load bases are modeled separately and are never summed, averaged, or normalized into a single MW figure. Any basis without a named public source is recorded as not-in-public-record rather than estimated. Every populated value carries its own source; every basis without one is held explicitly as not in public record.
Requested
Not in public record
Contracted
Not in public record
Design capacity
Announced campus build-out scale — 5 GW on Meta's compute-capacity basis, per the July 13, 2026 Meta announcement and Entergy's description of a campus with the potential to scale up to 5 GW · as of July 13, 2026
Meta · 2026-07-13 ↗Utility-deliverable
Not in public record
Critical IT
Not in public record
In service
Not in public record
Agreements
Entergy Louisiana · Laidley LLC (Meta Platforms)
Approved — settlement approved at the August 20, 2025 LPSC Business and Executive Session; order document dated August 29, 2025
Source ↗Entergy Louisiana · Evest LLC (Meta Platforms)
Open — LPSC certification proceeding; Commission consideration scheduled for the December 16, 2026 Business and Executive Session
Source ↗Entergy Louisiana · Meta Platforms
Announced — structured so Meta pays its full cost of service; first project submitted under the LPSC Lightning Amendment, with certification pending in U-37882
Source ↗Queue position
Not in public record
Entergy Louisiana large-load service is certified through LPSC dockets rather than a published interconnection queue, so no public queue position exists for this campus.
Energization dates
Not in public record — energization timing is tracked through U-37425 compliance filings rather than a published date
Scheduled Commission Business and Executive Session — a regulatory milestone, not an energization date
Louisiana Public Service Commission · 2026-03-27 ↗Substations
Not in public record
No named substation dependency is in the public record for this project.
Transmission
Generation & storage
Rate / tariff posture
Entergy Louisiana's Fair Share Plus pledge structures the service so Meta pays its full cost of service. Entergy states the two Meta agreements are expected to deliver approximately $2.65 billion in combined customer benefits over 20 years — $650 million from the first agreement plus about $2 billion from the expansion agreement. The expansion is the first filing under the LPSC's Lightning Amendment large-load framework.
Curtailment risk
Unknown
No interruptibility, curtailment, or demand-response terms for this load appear in the reviewed public record; the risk is not assessed rather than assumed low.
Verified September 23, 2026
Each row is one dated public record — or an explicit not in public record monitoring marker where no filing could be located. Rows never imply a permit exists without a linked source.
depends on LPSC U-37425 — Entergy Louisiana generation and transmission package for Meta Hyperion Phase 1 →; depends on LPSC X-37921 — Large Load Additions Non-Binding Guidelines repository docket →
Next: Commission consideration at the December 16, 2026 Business and Executive Session per the May 14, 2026 procedural order; Meta's Motion for Immediate Review of Interlocutory Ruling is an active procedural item, not a final certification decision. (expected December 16, 2026)
Next: Compliance filings, cost-allocation exhibits, transmission construction updates, and any true-up or rider filings tied to the approved settlement.
Next: Executed state incentive agreements or LED contract records for the Hyperion campus, when published.
Next: Well registration records or state water-use inventory entries for the Hyperion campus wells, if the state publishes them.
depends on LPSC U-37425 — Entergy Louisiana generation and transmission package for Meta Hyperion Phase 1 →
Next: LDEQ EDMS entries or public notices for air permits tied to the campus or its associated Entergy generation.
Next: Richland Parish Police Jury agendas, minutes, or ordinances covering Hyperion campus zoning, site plan, or variance actions.
Verified September 23, 2026
Every field below carries its own source or is held explicitly as not in public record. Cooling designs, withdrawal sources, and volumes are never inferred from nearby plants, river adjacency, or typical hyperscale designs.
Cooling method
Not in public record
Monitored through LDEQ water-permit notices, Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy groundwater records, parish water-board minutes, USACE New Orleans District, and operator disclosures.
The campus cooling architecture is not filed in the public record. A Boeuf River withdrawal authorization (desk record WD-26-RIC-04) evidences a water supply arrangement, but the desk does not infer a cooling design from a withdrawal permit.
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality · 2026-04-02 →Withdrawal source
Surface water — Boeuf River
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality · 2026-04-02 →Discharge destination
Not in public record
Monitored through LDEQ water-permit notices, Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy groundwater records, parish water-board minutes, USACE New Orleans District, and operator disclosures.
Authorized volumes
Approximate daily average in baseline operation, per Times-Picayune reporting citing state records
UWM Center for Water Policy ↗Up-to daily maximum under state water-use authorizations (≈8.4 billion gallons/year), per The Cenla Report's review of state records
The Cenla Report ↗Water / wastewater permits
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality · Filed — recorded in the desk source register 2026-04-02
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality · 2026-04-02 →Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality · No discharge permit located in the public record
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality ↗Water-board / supply agreements
Not in public record
No parish water-board or supply agreement is in the public record. Monitored through parish water-board minutes and police-jury agendas.
Water stress
Not in public record
No site-level water-stress assessment for the Richland Parish campus is in the public record.
Flood & hurricane
Not in public record
No FEMA flood-zone determination or hurricane-exposure assessment for the site is in the public record. Monitored through parish floodplain and hazard-mitigation records.
Wetlands
Not in public record
No wetlands delineation or Section 404 record for the campus is in the public record; LDEQ wetlands jurisdiction is noted in desk counterparty records only.
Emissions / air
Not in public record
No project-level air permit for on-site generation or backup equipment is in the public record. Utility-side Entergy generation additions are tracked separately through LPSC dockets and are not campus emissions.
Waste streams
Not in public record
No solid or hazardous waste stream filing for the campus is in the public record.
Review status
No standalone environmental review filing located
Not in public recordThe visible public trail runs through the Richland Parish site-plan record, LDEQ water filings, and LPSC utility dockets; no NEPA or consolidated state environmental review document for the campus is in the public record.
Verified September 23, 2026
Land deals, incentive terms, contractor awards, and community exposure each carry a named source or are held explicitly as not in the public record. Construction and operations jobs are never merged, and no dollar figure is estimated without a published record.
Land transactions
date not public · price not public · 2,250 ac · parcel ref not public
Land control was assembled under the Project Sucre codename on a 2,250-acre agricultural site; Laidley LLC is a Meta subsidiary per Sherwood News. Seller identities, parcel references, and purchase prices are not in the public record.
Construction Briefing (KHL) · 2024-11-21 ↗Assessed value
Not in the public record
Richland Parish assessment figures for the campus are not published.
Incentive terms
20-year term
LED's December 2024 announcement said Meta was expected to use the program; an LED statement reported July 1, 2026 said the exemption had been granted. The statutory agreement term is 20 years, renewable for 10.
The Center Square, via The Hayride · 2026-07-01 ↗5-year term
LED's December 2024 announcement said Meta was expected to use the Quality Jobs program (up to 6% payroll rebate on new direct jobs, 5-year term renewable for 5).
Louisiana Economic Development · 2024-12-04 ↗Local reporting documents a term sheet between Laidley LLC and the Northwest Louisiana Finance Authority tied to the campus investment, and LouisianAI incentive content records the project as carrying a Richland Parish PILOT. The PILOT term sheet itself is not public.
Construction Briefing (KHL) · 2024-11-21 ↗Taxable-value implications
Sherwood News estimates the sales-tax breaks on GPU purchases alone at more than $3.3 billion; ad-valorem exposure depends on the unpublished Richland Parish PILOT schedule and assessor records, so no taxable-value figure can be derived publicly.
Method: Qualitative only: combines the reported LED incentive stack with Sherwood's analysis of the sales-tax exemption. LouisianAI does not estimate assessed or taxable value without a published PILOT term sheet or assessor record.
Construction packages
Under construction
DPR Construction · Mortenson · Turner Construction · value not public
Meta confirmed the three general contractors in December 2024; individual contract values are not disclosed.
Construction Briefing (KHL) · 2024-11-21 ↗Contractor awards
General contractor, Richland Parish campus · 2024-12-05
Construction Briefing (KHL) · 2024-11-21 ↗General contractor, Richland Parish campus · 2024-12-05
Construction Briefing (KHL) · 2024-11-21 ↗General contractor, Richland Parish campus · 2024-12-05
Construction Briefing (KHL) · 2024-11-21 ↗Construction jobs
Meta frames more than 5,000 skilled-trade workers on-site at peak construction (Sherwood News).
Sherwood News · 2025-12-15 ↗Operations jobs
LED's December 2024 announcement frames 500+ permanent roles at full scale; Sherwood News reports the company expects roughly 300–500 operational full-time employees after construction finishes.
Louisiana Economic Development · 2024-12-04 ↗Workforce availability
Peak demand of 5,000+ skilled-trade workers far exceeds Richland Parish's local trades base, so Meta and its contractors draw regionally; a community-college trades pipeline is recorded on the LouisianAI operator record.
Partners: River Parishes Community College trades pipeline (desk record)
Sherwood News · 2025-12-15 ↗Lodging & housing pressure
Farmland near the Hyperion site was listed for sale at $73,000 per acre versus roughly $6,500 per acre for premium farmland, per Sherwood News — the clearest public signal of project-driven land-price pressure. Lodging and housing-market data specific to the build are not published.
Sherwood News · 2025-12-15 ↗Roads & public services
A planned 60-mile, 500-kV transmission line to serve the campus carries a reported $470 million cost and an active public debate over ratepayer exposure.
Sherwood News · 2025-12-15 ↗Local tax-base exposure
Sherwood News estimates the sales-tax exemptions on GPU purchases alone exceed $3.3 billion in forgone state revenue; the offsetting parish revenue structure (the PILOT schedule) is not public.
Sherwood News · 2025-12-15 ↗Edit the inputs to compare an ad-valorem proxy against a PILOT discount, construction labor hours, and peak power demand relative to an editable parish consumption baseline.
Ad-valorem proxy
$5,500,000,000
PILOT proxy
$3,025,000,000
Construction job hours
20,800,000
Demand vs parish use
36.5x
Meta Hyperion data center Louisiana is Meta's source-tracked Richland Parish AI campus. LouisianAI canonicalizes this query to /data-centers/meta-hyperion and connects it to the same LPSC, power, water, Wikidata, and Wikipedia evidence as Project Sucre and the Meta Richland Parish Data Center.
Meta Hyperion Richland Parish is the same campus as Meta Hyperion data center Louisiana: an under-construction Meta AI data center near Rayville in Richland Parish, Louisiana, served by Entergy Louisiana and tracked through LPSC data-center dockets.
As of August 5, 2026, Meta Hyperion is under construction in Richland Parish. LouisianAI tracks it as Meta's largest Louisiana AI data center: about 2,250 acres, roughly 4 million square feet, and a confirmed 5 GW build-out costing more than $50 billion (announced July 13, 2026), while Entergy's Phase II package remains under LPSC review.
The latest watch items are the August 2025 LPSC approval for Hyperion's first Entergy package, Entergy's March 27, 2026 Phase II agreement with Meta, Richland Parish construction and water records, and the Wikidata/Wikipedia entity bridge for Hyperion.
Project Sucre Meta data center is Meta Hyperion, the Meta AI data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. LouisianAI treats Project Sucre, Hyperion, Meta Richland Parish Data Center, and Richland Parish Data Center as aliases for the same campus.
Meta Hyperion 5GW Louisiana refers to the confirmed 5 GW build-out of Meta's Richland Parish campus, announced July 13, 2026, with roughly 2 GW expected by 2030 and the full campus around 2032. Entergy's Phase 2 filing describes more than 5,200 MW of additional generation, 500 kV transmission, storage, nuclear uprates, and renewables tied to the expansion package.
Richland Parish Data Center Meta is the same campus as Meta Hyperion: a Meta-backed AI data center build near Rayville in Richland Parish, served by Entergy Louisiana and tracked through LPSC data center dockets.
The Hyperion data center entity is connected to Wikidata Q138001063 and the Wikipedia Hyperion data center article. LouisianAI uses sameAs markup to tie the canonical local profile to those public knowledge-graph records.
The biggest data center in Louisiana is Meta Hyperion in Richland Parish. It is Meta's largest announced data center project, with more than $50 billion of announced investment, roughly 2,250 acres of campus footprint, and a confirmed 5 GW build-out.
The largest data center Louisiana 2026 answer is Meta Hyperion in Richland Parish. It is the same campus as Project Sucre, Meta Richland Parish Data Center, and Richland Parish Data Center, with LPSC power dockets, Meta's official Richland Parish page, and the Hyperion Wikidata/Wikipedia entity bridge attached to this profile.
Meta Hyperion AI Data Center is tracked at 4,000,000 sq ft and 2,250 acres, with 5,000 MW of power capacity where public sources support the number.
Current tracked figures show 500 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs, subject to source verification.
A PILOT is a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes structure negotiated locally; this page tracks the public artifacts needed to compare ad-valorem exposure with negotiated payments.
Under construction. Exact phase delivery dates remain tied to operator updates, utility milestones, parish permits, and regulatory filings.
Meta Hyperion AI Data Center is tracked in Richland Parish, Louisiana.
Meta Platforms is the operator listed for Meta Hyperion AI Data Center.
Water use is tracked as a verification item because definitive cooling and withdrawal figures usually appear in permits, utility exhibits, or operator environmental disclosures.
Louisiana data-center incentives can include Act 730 sales/use tax treatment and local PILOT structures; the exact package should be verified against state, parish, and operator documents.
The page tracks substations, transmission watch corridors, and utility filings as source-backed signals rather than engineering-grade interconnection maps.
Confidence labels distinguish seed, reported, and verified claims so readers can separate early intelligence from document-backed facts.
Cite this page or subscribe to filings that mention Meta Hyperion AI Data Center.
LouisianAI methodology and reuse guardrails; not an independent project fact source.
Official Meta site control statement for Richland Parish campus.
Independent reporting on Hyperion-scale deployment economics.
Utility generation expansion tied to Louisiana reliability + load growth narratives.
Regulatory artifact tying Meta load to approved infrastructure investments.
State collateral framing Louisiana's data center value proposition.
Primary infrastructure milestone for serving Richland Parish data center development.
Primary state-law lookup surface for Act 730 sales/use tax exemption and local PILOT diligence.