Add the three published campus-power rows on the LouisianAI register and you get 5,760 MW: Meta Hyperion at 5,000 MW of compute capacity, Hut 8 River Bend at 330 MW of utility capacity, and Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 at 430 MW of utility design. That is about 5.8 GW of announced site power — not in-service load, and not Entergy's 10–17 GW large-load pipeline.
"5.8 GW of announced Louisiana AI capacity" is not a utility forecast and not a statewide in-service total. It is the arithmetic of three published site-register rows on LouisianAI: 5,000 MW at Meta Hyperion, 330 MW at Hut 8 River Bend, and 430 MW at Applied Digital Delta Forge 1. Those three figures add to 5,760 MW, which rounds to 5.8 GW.
The addition is allowed only as a transparency sum of what operators have published. It is not allowed as a claim that Louisiana already has 5.8 GW of energized AI load, or that compute capacity, utility capacity, and utility design are the same thing. Amazon's Caddo and Bossier program is omitted from the sum because it has no public megawatt disclosure.
A different number — Entergy's 10–17 GW large-load pipeline, reported by Utility Dive — sits in the same conversation and answers a different question. Mixing the two is how a campus register becomes a fake grid crisis, or a utility funnel becomes a fake Louisiana build.
Meta is the 5,000 MW line. On July 13, 2026, Meta wrote that it is expanding the Richland Parish campus "to 5GW of compute capacity." That is a compute-capacity statement from the operator, not a utility interconnection rating and not an LPSC-certified generation total. The tracker stores it as 5,000 MW with power basis compute-capacity.
Hut 8 is the 330 MW line. Hut 8's River Bend project page lists "IT Capacity Commercialized" as 245 MW "Supported by 330 MW of utility capacity." The LouisianAI register uses the 330 MW utility-capacity figure, not the 245 MW IT figure and not the page's separate "Up to 1,000 MW of potential expansion capacity." Potential expansion is not announced Phase 1 capacity. River Bend is in West Feliciana Parish.
Applied Digital is the 430 MW line. The company's January 22, 2026 release says Delta Forge 1 "is designed to support an initial 430 MW of total utility power, enabling up to 300 MW of critical IT load." The register uses 430 MW on a utility-design basis. The 300 MW IT figure is a different basis from the same source and is not added on top of 430. The campus is in Rapides Parish.
5,000 + 330 + 430 = 5,760 MW. Call it 5.8 GW only if you also say what you added. Do not convert Hut 8's 330 MW utility capacity into Meta-style compute capacity, and do not convert Applied Digital's 430 MW utility design into in-service load.
Amazon is the largest omission. LED's February 23, 2026 announcement and August 18, 2026 expansion disclose planned investment — $12 billion, then $18 billion — and jobs. Neither LED release states a campus megawatt figure. The tracker therefore stores Amazon / STACK as "Not publicly disclosed." Guessing a MW number from capex would invent the one figure this page is forbidden to invent.
Hut 8's "up to 1,000 MW" expansion potential is the second omission. It is on the operator page as potential, not as the commercialized utility-capacity row. Adding it would turn 5.8 GW into a different, larger claim.
Generation dockets are the third omission. Entergy's U-37882 expansion application is about plants to serve Meta, described as more than 5.2 GW of new combined-cycle units in Utility Dive and as 5,278 MW in the American Press account of the appeal. Those megawatts are proposed generation, still before the Commission. They are not a fourth campus row and they are not already inside the 5,000 MW compute figure.
Utility Dive, February 17, 2026, covering Entergy's update on its five regulated utilities, reported a large-load pipeline of 10 GW to 17 GW, unchanged from the prior quarter. Chairman and CEO Andrew Marsh split that funnel as 7–12 GW of data-center demand and 3–5 GW of other large industrials.
That range is system-wide. Utility Dive locates the five utilities in the New Orleans area, greater Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and east Texas. It is not a Louisiana-only number, and it is not computed from the LouisianAI campus register. The Entergy load-forecast brief keeps that distinction on a dedicated page.
The same Utility Dive story includes other Entergy disclosures that also must stay in their own boxes: 3.5 GW of electric service agreements signed the prior year; an estimate that data-center contracts then in place would generate about $5 billion in rate offsets, or more than $5 per customer per month, over the life of the contracts; $43 billion of planned capital spending through 2029; more than 8.1 GW of combined-cycle plants being built or already approved, with nearly 3 GW more sought by 2030; and a 45 MW uprate at the 1,152 MW Waterford 3 nuclear plant. None of those figures is a substitute for 5,760 MW of published campus rows.
A later Utility Dive piece quoted Marsh saying that after agreements signed to date, including the recent Meta agreement, Entergy still had a pipeline of 7 to 12 GW of potential data-center customers. That sentence is why the funnel and the campus register cannot be added: signed deals do not empty the pipeline in the company's own telling.
It means the public campus register is already in multi-gigawatt territory on paper, and that almost all of the published MW sits on two Entergy Louisiana corridors — Richland and West Feliciana — plus one Cleco corridor in Rapides. It does not mean 5.8 GW is in service. Hyperion is under construction with a 2027–2030 ramp in the statewide readout. Hut 8 targets 2027 operations. Applied Digital's release targets mid-2027 initial operations.
It means interconnection, not just land, is the binding constraint. Meta's 5 GW compute claim still depends on U-37425 for Phase 1 and U-37882 for the expansion plants. Applied Digital's 430 MW design still depends on U-38035 at Cleco. Amazon's undisclosed load still depends on SWEPCO and whatever large-load path that utility files. The power topic and LPSC docket trail are the places to watch those paths.
It means ratepayer risk is a docket question, not a gigawatt slogan. Meta says it pays the full cost of the energy and infrastructure it uses. Advocacy parties in U-37882 argue the leftover plant balance after a 20-year contract is the real bill. Entergy's 10–17 GW funnel, if even the low end showed up across five states, would require a generation and transmission program far larger than any one parish PILOT. The Commission, not a rounded 5.8 GW headline, decides cost allocation.
It also means water, workforce, and tax bases move on a different clock from MW. Those records live on the project pages, parish hubs, and policy desk. They do not convert 5,760 MW into a consumption forecast.
A clean citation sounds like this: LouisianAI's confirmed campus register publishes 5,760 MW of site power across three records — Meta Hyperion at 5,000 MW compute capacity, Hut 8 River Bend at 330 MW utility capacity, and Delta Forge 1 at 430 MW utility design — about 5.8 GW when added, with Amazon omitted because no MW is public. Entergy separately discloses a 10–17 GW large-load pipeline (7–12 GW data centers plus 3–5 GW other industrials) across its five-state system, per Utility Dive.
Anything shorter that turns those sentences into "Louisiana has 5.8 GW of AI on the grid" or "Louisiana needs 17 GW of new plants" is no longer a sourced claim. Use the tracker, the infrastructure cards, and the load-forecast brief when the units start to blur.
It is 5,000 MW (Meta Hyperion compute capacity) plus 330 MW (Hut 8 River Bend utility capacity) plus 430 MW (Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 utility design), which equals 5,760 MW, or about 5.8 GW. Each figure is the operator-published row on the LouisianAI site register. The units are not interchangeable.
No. Utility Dive reported Entergy's system-wide large-load pipeline as 10–17 GW (7–12 GW data centers plus 3–5 GW other industrials) across utilities in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and New Orleans. That funnel is not computed from the campus register and is not Louisiana-only.
LED's $12 billion and later $18 billion Caddo and Bossier announcements do not state a public megawatt figure. LouisianAI does not estimate one.