— residents. — sq mi. Population center: New Orleans. As of May 2026 the parish hosts 0 tracked AI infrastructure projects under Entergy New Orleans.
No confirmed AI data-center campus is in the public record for Orleans Parish yet. The hub stays on the map as watch geography so an unsourced rumor is not folded into a neighboring confirmed campus. Utility context is Entergy New Orleans in the Greater New Orleans Louisiana region, with the parish seat in New Orleans.
New Orleans / Orleans Parish has no confirmed AI data-center campus in the LouisianAI register. City Planning Commission and Council actions on data-center rules are tracked on the policy hub. This page does not invent a campus from a zoning debate.
Each claim below is copied from an existing desk record and linked to that record’s source. Sections with no sourced item are left out.
5-2 CPC vote against staff proposal; Council action pending. On October 13, 2026, the City Planning Commission voted 5-2 against staff's proposed data-center zoning framework, recommended a six-month extension of the citywide ban that expires in January, and urged a 1,000-foot residential buffer if data centers are later allowed.
Tulane School of Science and Engineering. Standalone BS in Computer Science plus a new AI minor.
Program source →Tulane Office of the Provost. Tulane's list of AI programs, including the AI minor and the Business Analytics and AI certificate.
Program source →LSU New Orleans announced NSF and LBRN-backed AiR Lab projects using autonomous and social robotics for coastal water-quality monitoring and autism-therapy support.
LSU New Orleans →LSU says five projects across four campuses were selected in Meta's October 2026 university program, including neurosurgical outcomes, privacy-preserving fall detection, VR procedural training, and infant tracheostomy monitoring.
Louisiana State University →Tulane announced a DOE Genesis Mission Phase I selection for an AI-enabled workflow to identify and evaluate next-generation superconducting materials.
Tulane University →Tulane computer-science researchers co-authored AgentInspect, an ISSTA 2026 paper in Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering that introduces a framework for diagnosing behavioral failures in LangChain-based AI agents.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) →A multidisciplinary center for human-centered AI research, project-based learning, community partnerships, workshops, and seed-grant support.
Tulane University →Tulane's School of Science and Engineering announced two NSF awards to computer-science associate professor Zhengming Ding for interpretable AI, covering multi-modal MRI brain imaging and data-driven semantic prototypes.
Tulane University →No briefs index this parish yet — it’s on the watch list.
Region hub: New Orleans Metro. Other parishes in the Greater New Orleans region:
LouisianAI currently tracks 0 announced or under-construction AI data center projects in Orleans Parish, with the parish under active monitoring.
Entergy New Orleans is the utility of record for Orleans Parish. Project-specific generation and transmission costs are recovered from the data center customer under tariffs filed with the LPSC.
Orleans Parish sits in the Greater New Orleans Louisiana region, with parish seat in New Orleans.
No confirmed AI data-center campus is in the Orleans Parish register. City data-center zoning and CPC actions are tracked on the policy hub rather than as a campus record.