Amazon (Caddo + Bossier)
Public disclosures cite 540 direct permanent jobs plus 1,710 additional regional roles. These figures are kept project-specific.
Open project record →Intent hub · jobs
Louisiana AI jobs, hiring, and training.
LouisianAI keeps job figures project-specific because public announcements use incompatible direct, indirect, construction, and operations scopes; the training stack runs through BPCC, LSU, ULL, and parish technical colleges.
What is known now about Louisiana AI jobs
Applied Digital (Rapides)
Delta Forge 1 disclosures cite 200 direct full-time jobs plus more than 1,000 peak construction jobs during buildout.
Open project record →Workforce guardrail
LouisianAI does not publish a synthetic statewide total from mixed direct, indirect, construction, and operations denominators.
Workforce methodology →Education and training pipeline
Education & workforceImplementation underway
Louisiana K–12 AI strategy
Louisiana's statewide education-technology plan documents a five-pillar comprehensive AI plan, educator development, literacy guidance, and expansion of AI pilots.
Source: Louisiana Department of Education →Education & workforceReported Jun. 2026
Louisiana AI Readiness Pipeline
A state education pathway intended to strengthen connections among K–12 instruction, postsecondary programs, and emerging-technology workforce preparation.
Source: Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education →Education & workforceLaunches fall 2026
Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Louisiana's first standalone bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence, approved by the Board of Regents and built around technical, ethical, and systems-level AI engineering.
Source: Louisiana State University →Education & workforceInstitutional portfolio
LSU AI research network
A cross-disciplinary research network spanning medicine, wildfire prediction, disaster response, virtual production, classroom resources, and high-performance AI computing.
Source: Louisiana State University →Education & workforceActive center
Center for Community-Engaged Artificial Intelligence
A multidisciplinary center for human-centered AI research, project-based learning, community partnerships, workshops, and seed-grant support.
Source: Tulane University →Education & workforceActive center
Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
A use-driven AI research and workforce hub connecting university researchers, domain experts, industry, government, and community partners.
Source: University of Louisiana at Lafayette →Education & workforceLaunched Mar. 2026
LaFLEUR Project
A Louisiana-specific language-AI project building expert-vetted training data and transcription tools for Louisiana French recordings and regional dialects.
Source: University of Louisiana at Lafayette →Education & workforceLab opens fall 2026
Louisiana Tech AI laboratory and resilience research
An AI research and teaching investment paired with NSF-backed work on explainable anomaly detection for power, water, manufacturing, and transportation systems.
Source: Louisiana Tech University →Parish-by-parish jobs intent pages
Every parish, linked to job-relevant records.
These pages connect hiring-intent queries to operator, permit, and workforce records that can actually verify job momentum.
Parishes with tracked hyperscale projects
Bossier Parish jobsNorthwest · 1 tracked projectCaddo Parish jobsNorthwest · 1 tracked projectRapides Parish jobsCentral · 1 tracked projectRichland Parish jobsNortheast · 1 tracked projectWest Feliciana Parish jobsCapital · 1 tracked project
Watchlist parishes
Every Louisiana parish keeps a jobs record even before a named campus appears — each page states what is confirmed, what is missing from the public record, and which filings would change the answer.
Capital
Northshore
Greater New Orleans
Related reporting
Louisiana policy and workforce filings that normally close gaps on AI capex rumor
Public workforce boards, vocational expansions, water board hearings that often clarify AI hyperscale footprints before headline numbers plateau.
STACK and Amazon multi-parish coordination notes for Louisiana buyers
How parallel campuses across Caddo and Bossier change logistics, workforce housing, supplier routing in Northwest Louisiana AI growth.
Applied Digital Boyce labor and equipment mobilization signals to monitor
Early civil work, laydown yards, substation civil packages, training partnerships that telegraph phase-one AI compute delivery in Central Louisiana.
Louisiana AI brief archive 30: parish-level AI infrastructure notes
Supplemental Louisiana AI intelligence brief 30 covering parish signals, vendor motion, policy artifacts, and workforce queues for operators statewide.
Louisiana AI brief archive 48: parish-level AI infrastructure notes
Supplemental Louisiana AI intelligence brief 48 covering parish signals, vendor motion, policy artifacts, and workforce queues for operators statewide.
Louisiana AI brief archive 21: parish-level AI infrastructure notes
Supplemental Louisiana AI intelligence brief 21 covering parish signals, vendor motion, policy artifacts, and workforce queues for operators statewide.
Louisiana AI brief archive 39: parish-level AI infrastructure notes
Supplemental Louisiana AI intelligence brief 39 covering parish signals, vendor motion, policy artifacts, and workforce queues for operators statewide.
Louisiana AI brief archive 38: parish-level AI infrastructure notes
Supplemental Louisiana AI intelligence brief 38 covering parish signals, vendor motion, policy artifacts, and workforce queues for operators statewide.