The terms of art, defined plainly.
24 entries. Every term we use in briefs that a generalist reader might not know cold.
Louisiana law passed in the 2024 Regular Session that provides a 20-year (renewable to 30) state and local sales/use tax exemption for approved data centers.
Full entry →The AEP subsidiary that serves northwest Louisiana and is the utility of record for Amazon's $12B Caddo + Bossier data center campuses.
Full entry →Phase-change water storage integrated into a campus chilled-water loop.
Generation or storage on the customer side of the utility meter; not part of integrated resource planning.
Investor-owned utility serving central Louisiana including Rapides Parish and parts of Acadiana.
Full entry →The Entergy Corporation subsidiary that serves much of north and southeast Louisiana, and the utility of record for Meta Hyperion and Hut 8 River Bend.
Full entry →Entergy LA's cost-allocation framework for large discrete loads, governing how new firm load contributes to the rate base.
A networked group of graphics processing units (typically NVIDIA H100/H200/B200/B300 class) used for large-scale AI training and inference.
Full entry →1,000 MW; the standard unit for firm load on a hyperscaler campus envelope.
A purpose-built data center campus exceeding ~100 MW IT load, optimized for high-density AI training and inference workloads.
Full entry →Term of art for the top-tier cloud and AI operators (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle) that operate hyperscale data centers.
Full entry →Louisiana program providing ad-valorem property-tax exemption on qualifying manufacturing capex, subject to local approval.
Full entry →Multi-year forecast of generation, transmission, and load required of an IOU by the LPSC.
State permitting authority for air, water, waste, and wetlands.
State agency administering incentive packages (QJ, RPC, EZ).
The Louisiana state agency that certifies data center projects, administers Act 730, and operates the Quality Jobs payroll-rebate program.
Full entry →Elected five-member body regulating IOUs and cooperatives in the state.
Units of power — 1 GW = 1,000 MW. Louisiana AI projects are now sized in MW (single campus) and GW (multi-site portfolios).
Full entry →Unit of electrical power. A 2 GW campus = 2,000 MW firm load.
A negotiated parish-level agreement that substitutes a set payment schedule for full ad-valorem property taxes during a project's early years.
Full entry →A media outlet whose reporting we treat as B-grade until a primary source surfaces.
LED rebate of 4–6% of new payroll for qualifying capital projects.
Louisiana payroll-rebate program providing up to 6% rebate on payroll for new direct jobs above set wage thresholds.
Full entry →Local property-tax abatement available to industrial projects > $25M capex.