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Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
July 13, 2026: Meta confirmed 5 GW / $50B+ build-out; U-37882 expansion package still under LPSC review.
Project and operator · Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
Meta Hyperion AI Data Center · Meta Platforms — Open the linked record before repeating a material claim.
Parish and utility · Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
Richland Parish · Entergy LA — Utility territory is context, not proof of an executed service agreement or energization date.
Current tracker status · Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
Under construction · Phase II review — Status is a source-labelled tracking assessment. Open regulatory records are not approvals.
Tracked capital investment · Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
$50B+ — Investment is a tracked public figure, not a completed-spend assertion.
Tracked power capacity · Meta Hyperion AI Data Center
5,000 MW — Capacity, contracted load, utility design, critical IT load, and in-service power are distinct concepts.
U-37425 · Laidley LLC
This is the first Meta Hyperion power docket. It approved the initial generation and transmission package needed to serve Meta's Richland Parish campus.
U-37882 · Evest LLC / Project Evest
This is the Meta expansion docket. Entergy describes the package as seven additional gas combined-cycle plants totaling more than 5,200 MW, roughly 240 miles of 500 kV transmission, storage, nuclear uprates, and up to 2,500 MW of Meta-funded renewables. WWL L…
Hyperion 5 GW Public Record, July 2026
Meta’s 5 GW announcement is a material project update. It is not, by itself, a final LPSC order, an in-service power figure, or a complete water-use record.
Entergy Louisiana Data Center Load Forecast 2026
Bottom-up from LPSC Dockets U-37425, U-37882, U-37853 and Entergy's 2026 capex disclosures, with a direct answer for maximum-exposure searches and the ratepayer counter-modeling from UCS, Alliance for Affordable Energy, and The Lens NOLA.
Meta Hyperion grid expansion and gas plant clusters Louisiana operators track
Entergy planning signals, gas-turbine clusters, transmission upgrades that translate AI campus ramp risk into Louisiana operational hedging.
Parish-level incentive drift patterns around Meta, Amazon, Hut 8 timelines
Where LED packages, local abatements, infrastructure grants surface first when Louisiana AI megaprojects race construction windows.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Hyperscale operator anchoring Louisiana's AI buildout. The Hyperion campus is the single largest tracked load addition in the state.
META-2026-0713 · Meta · Hyperion expansion to 5 GW / $50B+ (company announcement)
— · Jul 13 2026
LPSC opens U-37425 (Entergy LA resources for Meta Phase 1)
The Commission opened the first Meta Hyperion power docket — Entergy Louisiana generation and transmission resources for service to a single North Louisiana customer project (Laidley LLC / Meta Platforms).
LED: Meta selects Northeast Louisiana for $10B AI data center
Louisiana Economic Development announced Meta's $10 billion AI-optimized data center in Richland Parish, with the project expected to use the Act 730 program and the Quality Jobs program.
LouisianAI begins tracking Meta Hyperion
The desk opened its Meta Hyperion record five days after the LED announcement, anchored to the state's December 4, 2024 release.
LPSC approves the U-37425 settlement
The Commission approved the Meta Phase 1 settlement at its August 20, 2025 Business and Executive Session, clearing the initial generation and transmission package for the Richland Parish campus.
U-37425 order document dated
The U-37425 order document was dated August 29, 2025 — the controlling primary record for the approved Meta Phase 1 power package.
LPSC opens U-37882 (Meta expansion / Project Evest)
The Commission opened Entergy Louisiana's certification proceeding for the Meta expansion (Evest LLC / Project Evest): seven additional gas combined-cycle plants totaling more than 5,200 MW, roughly 240 miles of 500 kV transmission, storage, nuclear uprates, …
U-37882 procedural order sets schedule toward December 16, 2026
The Commission's May 14, 2026 procedural order in U-37882 directs a schedule for Commission consideration at the December 16, 2026 Business and Executive Session. It is a scheduling step, not a certification decision.
LED statement: Act 730 exemption granted for current data-center projects
A secondary report quoting an LED statement said the data-center sales/use tax exemption had been granted for current projects. Meta's Hyperion campus was expected to use the Act 730 and Quality Jobs programs per LED's December 2024 announcement; the project …
Meta confirms 5 GW / $50B+ Hyperion build-out
Meta confirmed a 5 GW build-out costing more than $50 billion for its Richland Parish campus — up from the original $10B framing in LED's December 2024 announcement. The U-37882 expansion package remains under LPSC review.