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 4 records; 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.
Every event below is tied to a named public source or explicitly marked as a watch-row signal with no publishable document. Field-level before → after diffs appear only where the record documents a change. Chronology verified 2026-09-23. The same payload is available as JSON at /api/v1/timeline.
29 events · 11 with field-level diffs · grouped by month, oldest first
Act 730 of the 2024 Regular Session amended La. R.S. 47:305.73 to give approved data centers a state and local sales and use tax rebate, effective July 1, 2024. Eligibility requires LED certification, a sworn attestation of at least $200M of new Louisiana capital investment between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2029, and at least 50 new direct, permanent Louisiana jobs.
The Commission opened the first Meta Hyperion power docket — Entergy Louisiana generation and transmission resources for service to a single North Louisiana customer project (Laidley LLC / Meta Platforms).
Louisiana Economic Development announced Meta's $10 billion AI-optimized data center in Richland Parish, with the project expected to use the Act 730 program and the Quality Jobs program.
The desk opened its Meta Hyperion record five days after the LED announcement, anchored to the state's December 4, 2024 release.
Act 11 of the 2024 Third Extraordinary Session converted the data-center sales and use tax rebate into an exemption for taxable periods beginning on and after January 1, 2025.
The desk opened its Amazon multi-campus record for Caddo and Bossier parishes; the record's public evidence trail is anchored by Amazon's Louisiana investment page and STACK's February 2026 release.
The desk opened its River Bend record for the West Feliciana Parish campus, anchored to Hut 8's project page ahead of the state's formal December 2025 announcement.
The desk opened a watch row for the STACK Bossier site context — a potential subsite within the Amazon/STACK multi-campus program whose independent cost and MW are not public.
The Commission approved the Meta Phase 1 settlement at its August 20, 2025 Business and Executive Session, clearing the initial generation and transmission package for the Richland Parish campus.
The U-37425 order document was dated August 29, 2025 — the controlling primary record for the approved Meta Phase 1 power package.
Louisiana Economic Development announced Hut 8's River Bend AI data center. The figure is an upper-bound Phase I disclosure and is not added to the statewide disclosed-capex floor.
The desk opened its record for Applied Digital's Rapides Parish campus days before the Delta Forge 1 groundbreaking release; the record is anchored to Applied Digital's investor materials.
Applied Digital broke ground on Delta Forge 1 near Boyce, describing 430 MW of total utility power, up to 300 MW of critical IT load, and an initial-operations target of mid-2027.
STACK Infrastructure announced data-center developments supporting economic growth in Louisiana — the controlling primary source for the $12B multi-campus Amazon/STACK program record across Caddo and Bossier parishes.
The Commission opened Entergy Louisiana's request to construct Waterford 6 Power Station and Westlake Power Station — part of the broader large-load generation stack, not a single-customer docket.
The Amazon/STACK program record notes the Bossier Parish technology-park final plat cleared in March 2026, moving the Bossier side of the corridor into site-specific buildout.
The Commission opened Entergy Louisiana's certification proceeding for the Meta expansion (Evest LLC / Project Evest): 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.
The desk opened a rumour-grade watch row for a possible Vantage Data Centers site search on the East Bank, tracked from supplier RFPs only. No operator, permit, or utility confirmation exists in the public record.
The Commission opened its evaluation of private-use electrical networks that could enable generation to serve prospective new large loads — a framework proceeding, not a customer-specific approval.
The Hut 8 River Bend record notes a $16 million parish water-system commitment announced in May 2026, supporting the campus's river-adjacent cooling posture.
The Commission opened the informational repository docket for its Large Load Additions Non-Binding Guidelines — the framework used to evaluate expedited filings like U-37882. No interventions are accepted.
The Commission's May 14, 2026 procedural order in U-37882 directs a schedule for Commission consideration at the December 16, 2026 Business and Executive Session. It is a scheduling step, not a certification decision.
Louisiana Economic Development announced Delta Forge 1 as a $3.6 billion Rapides Parish AI factory build — the state's capex disclosure for a project already under construction since January 2026.
The public-comment window on the LPSC's Large Load Additions Non-Binding Guidelines closed June 19, 2026. The docket remains an informational repository, not an approval path.
The Governor issued Executive Order JML 26-058 establishing the Louisiana Ratepayer and Community Protection Initiative for large-load growth, including AI data-center development.
A secondary report quoting an LED statement said the data-center sales/use tax exemption had been granted for current projects. Meta's Hyperion campus was expected to use the Act 730 and Quality Jobs programs per LED's December 2024 announcement; the project also carries a Richland Parish PILOT.
Meta confirmed a 5 GW build-out costing more than $50 billion for its Richland Parish campus — up from the original $10B framing in LED's December 2024 announcement. The U-37882 expansion package remains under LPSC review.
The July 31, 2026 LPSC bulletin posted a Notice of Procedural Schedule and Staff's First Set of RFI for the private-use electrical-network evaluation — a framework proceeding, not customer-specific approval.
Louisiana Economic Development announced Amazon's planned Northwest Louisiana investment growing to $18 billion with a new Shreveport campus. The tracker record still carries the $12B multi-campus figure pending source re-verification against this release.
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