— residents. — sq mi. Population center: Alexandria. As of May 2026 the parish hosts 1 tracked AI infrastructure project under Cleco Power.
Source-backed rows on this hub: Delta Forge 1 (Under construction — Delta Forge 1 broke ground in January 2026). The utility of record is Cleco Power. Capex, megawatts, jobs, and permit outcomes stay on the named campus pages; this parish page does not invent a local total from those rows.
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Under construction. Delta Forge 1 broke ground Jan. 2026; mid-2027 target.
Open. This is the Cleco docket for the Applied Digital Rapides Parish package. The filing describes an expected roughly 430 MW project by 2028 and asks the Commission to approve customer-specific service and supply arrangements.
Docket record →Operations: 200 — The term sheet obligates creating and maintaining 200 full-time jobs within five years at wages at or above 150% of the statewide annual average; LED projects 418 total new jobs in the Central Region.. Construction: 1,000 — More than 1,000 construction jobs at peak development per LED and company framing.. Training: Louisiana Central coordinated regional due-diligence; FastStart is the statewide training program
Parish jobs topic →Applied Digital · Boyce, LA
JobTarget (Applied Digital posting) →Applied Digital · Boyce, LA
JobTarget (Applied Digital posting) →Region hub: Alexandria Metro. Other parishes in the Central region:
LouisianAI currently tracks 1 announced or under-construction AI data center project in Rapides Parish: Delta Forge 1.
Cleco Power is the utility of record for Rapides Parish. Project-specific generation and transmission costs are recovered from the data center customer under tariffs filed with the LPSC.
Rapides Parish sits in the Central Louisiana region, with parish seat in Alexandria.