Data Center Atlas
Meta Richland Parish Data Center
Under construction
United States · 2 projects · Last reported
Summary
Meta Richland Parish Current Development
Turner reports continuing campus work and active interior buildout in the first buildings at Meta Richland Parish. The later campus expansion is not independently counted. evidence
Turner Construction Company · published 2026-07-16
Meta Richland Parish data center (Hyperion)
Meta campus on the former Franklin Farm megasite in Richland Parish, northeast Louisiana, built to house Hyperion, which Meta calls its largest AI cluster. Announced in December 2024 as a USD 10 billion project, it was placed in late 2025 in a joint venture 80% owned by Blue Owl-managed funds and expanded in July 2026 to a planned 5 GW of IT capacity and more than USD 50 billion of investment. Entergy Louisiana is adding gas-fired generation, batteries and transmission upgrades to serve the site under a 20-year agreement. Construction began in December 2024, and officials expect full build-out around 2036.
Source record as of 2026-07-14 · Details and sources
Location
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Campus reference; individual project footprints are not mapped.
Projects (2)
Meta Richland Parish Current Development
Under construction last observed as of · Authoritative status update
Source and location review
- Status source
- Turner July 16 Richland Parish interior buildout observation evidence row
Turner Construction Company · published 2026-07-16 · Company disclosure - Locator
- Campus locator · Community source · community_named_campus_reference_point evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 103 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Meta Richland Parish data center (Hyperion)
Under construction last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Holly Ridge, Richland Parish, Louisiana, US. Sources place the campus on the former Franklin Farm megasite between Rayville and Delhi; the 2026 state release is datelined Holly Ridge and WRKF refers to the Holly Ridge site. Coordinates are the Holly Ridge community point from OpenStreetMap Nominatim, not a surveyed site boundary. Louisiana Economic Development; Louisiana Economic Development; WRKF
Use: Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | 5,000 MW | Planned · Campus · It load | 2026-07-13 | The state release calls this IT capacity; Meta's fact sheet describes the same 5 GW as compute capacity to house Hyperion, which it calls its largest AI cluster. | Louisiana Economic Development; Meta Platforms |
| Power capacity | about 2,000 MW | Planned · Phase · Unspecified · Initial build targeted by 2030 | 2025-11-05 | Reported before the 2026 expansion as the initial capacity target, with possible growth toward 5 GW. | Data Center Frontier |
| Power capacity | about 2,500 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2025-08-20 | Power requirement cited in coverage of the August 2025 utility approval, before the 5 GW expansion. | KALB |
| Investment | 10,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2024-12-04 | Louisiana Economic Development | |
| Investment | about 27,000,000,000 USD | Reported · Campus | 2025-11-05 | Expected total development cost of the Meta and Blue Owl joint venture, covering buildings and long-lived power, cooling and connectivity infrastructure. | Data Center Frontier; KTVE (myarklamiss.com) |
| Investment | more than 50,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2026-07-13 | Louisiana Economic Development; Meta Platforms | |
| Floor area | 4,000,000 sq_ft | Planned · Campus | 2024-12-04 | Louisiana Economic Development | |
| Floor area | about 10,000,000 sq_ft | Planned · Campus | 2026-07-13 | Described as nearly 10 million square feet after the 2026 expansion. | Louisiana Economic Development |
| Land area | 2,250 acres | Reported · Campus | 2024-12-04 | Louisiana Economic Development | |
| Land area | more than 3,200 acres | Reported · Campus | 2026-07-14 | Eventual footprint reported after the 2026 expansion. | WRKF |
| Jobs construction | 5,000 count | Planned · Campus | 2024-12-04 | Peak construction workforce projected at announcement. | Louisiana Economic Development |
| Jobs construction | 7,500 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-07-13 | Peak construction workforce projected after the expansion. | Louisiana Economic Development |
| Jobs permanent | at least 500 count | Planned · Campus | 2024-12-04 | Louisiana Economic Development | |
| Jobs permanent | about 1,000 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-07-13 | Louisiana Economic Development; Meta Platforms |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Platforms | Developer | Louisiana Economic Development; Louisiana Economic Development; Meta Platforms | |
| Meta Platforms | Owner | Holds 20% of the joint venture that owns the campus and keeps the development and property-management role. | Data Center Frontier; KTVE (myarklamiss.com) |
| Meta Platforms | Tenant | Anchor tenant leasing the facilities from the joint venture. | Data Center Frontier |
| Blue Owl Capital (managed funds) | Owner | Funds managed by Blue Owl hold 80% of the joint venture formed in late 2025. | Data Center Frontier; KTVE (myarklamiss.com) |
| PIMCO | Investor | Led the debt placements that helped finance the joint venture. | Data Center Frontier |
| Entergy Louisiana | Utility | Louisiana Economic Development; KALB; Louisiana Economic Development | |
| Turner Construction Company | Builder | Named as a general contractor. | Data Center Frontier |
| DPR Construction | Builder | Named as a general contractor. | Data Center Frontier |
| Mortenson | Builder | Named as a general contractor. | Data Center Frontier |
| Louisiana Economic Development | Government | Louisiana Economic Development; Louisiana Economic Development |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-04 | Announced | Actual | Louisiana Economic Development | |
| 2024-12 | Construction started | Actual | The state said site work would begin in December; later reporting dates the groundbreaking to December 2024. | Louisiana Economic Development; WRKF |
| 2025-08 | Other | Actual | The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 4-1 to approve Entergy Louisiana's three new gas plants tied to the campus, as reported on 2025-08-20. | KALB |
| 2025-10 | Other | Actual | Meta announced the joint venture with Blue Owl-managed funds at the end of October 2025 and on 21 October cited a development cost of about USD 27 billion. | Data Center Frontier; KTVE (myarklamiss.com) |
| 2026-07-13 | Expansion announced | Actual | Expansion to 5 GW of IT capacity and more than USD 50 billion of investment. | Louisiana Economic Development; WRKF |
| 2030 | Other | Planned | Target for roughly 2 GW of initial capacity, as reported before the 2026 expansion. | Data Center Frontier |
| 2036 | Fully operational | Planned | Officials expect the full build-out of both phases by 2036. | WRKF |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Supplied by Entergy Louisiana under a 20-year agreement. Regulators approved three new combined-cycle gas units in 2025 (two in Richland Parish, one at Waterford) along with transmission upgrades; the 2026 state release refers to seven new gas plants, while WRKF reports Entergy sought approval for ten. These are utility plants rather than on-site generation. | KALB; Data Center Frontier; Louisiana Economic Development; WRKF |
| Battery storage | Three grid-scale battery systems are part of the Entergy arrangement announced with the 2026 expansion. | Louisiana Economic Development |
| Nuclear | The 2026 arrangement includes possible nuclear development, including an output increase at Entergy's Waterford 3 plant. | Louisiana Economic Development |
| Solar | Entergy was cleared to fast-track up to 1,500 MW of solar; Meta earlier pledged to help bring at least 1,500 MW of new renewables to the grid and in 2026 committed to fund up to 2.5 GW of clean energy. | Louisiana Economic Development; Data Center Frontier; Louisiana Economic Development |
Meta's fact sheet PDF (s6) shows no publication date; its embedded file creation date is 2026-09-01. The KTVE article (s7) shows only a relative date.
Sources for these details
- Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment 'A New Chapter' for State — Louisiana Economic Development; 2024-12-04
- La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta's AI data center — KALB; 2025-08-20 · Archived source
- Meta's $27B Hyperion Campus: A New Blueprint for AI Infrastructure Finance — Data Center Frontier; 2025-11-05
- Meta Commits More Than $50 Billion for North Louisiana Project, Becoming One of the Largest Data Centers in History — Louisiana Economic Development; 2026-07-13 · Archived source
- Meta is investing $40B more to expand Richland Parish data center project — WRKF; 2026-07-14
- Meta Richland Parish Data Center fact sheet — Meta Platforms; publication date not stated · Archived source
- As development continues, the cost of Meta's data center in Richland Parish will be 3x more than originally projected — KTVE (myarklamiss.com); publication date not stated · Archived source
- Companies
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: Blue Owl Capital (managed funds) (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: Blue Owl Capital (managed funds) (unknown scope) evidence
- Investor: PIMCO (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Entergy Louisiana (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Entergy Louisiana (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Entergy Louisiana (unknown scope) evidence
- Builder: Turner Construction Company (unknown scope) evidence
- Builder: DPR Construction (unknown scope) evidence
- Builder: Mortenson (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Louisiana Economic Development (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Louisiana Economic Development (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- Meta Commits More Than $50 Billion for North Louisiana Project, Becoming One of the Largest Data Centers in History evidence row
Louisiana Economic Development · published 2026-07-13 · Government record - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 105 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 32.52892, -91.63608
- Geometry licence
- CC-BY-SA-2.0, ODbL-1.0, no-open-license-asserted
- Use scope
- Campus locator
- Scope class
- community_named_campus_reference_point
- Authority
- Community source
- Source entity
- Campus
- Method
- nominatim_exact_named_campus_reference_point
- Derivation
- Use the single exact-name community feature, verify its source object geometry, and emit the unchanged service longitude/latitude in GeoJSON order.
- Precision scope
- The returned point lies in the northern component of the named three-component campus relation. It represents the overall operator-described campus, not a particular first building, Phase 2 construction, or Laidley/Evest legal parcel. No survey, exact building centroid, active construction footprint or bounded numerical accuracy is claimed.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
Community mapper and geocoder provide no bounded horizontal accuracy; coordinate decimal places are not measurement precision.
- Geometry evidence
- 0357dcf6 5492ab7f 816746dd 90966722 d5e0a9c8
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| As development continues, the cost of Meta's data center in Richland Parish will be 3x more than originally projected Archived copy | KTVE (myarklamiss.com) News | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Milestone: Other, Owner claim | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | KTVE (myarklamiss.com) | 21e02ed3af3408c57903ca441089ba7cce2b4f8759837ef8be23a229800257c6Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Exact named Meta Richland Parish Data Center Nominatim point Archived copy | OpenStreetMap contributors via Nominatim OpenStreetMap | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | ODbL-1.0 | OpenStreetMap contributors via Nominatim | 619548b627d084a63f05a776ea734cd1c360f4f686b6f58f56feed7d59cc6243Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta's AI data center Archived copy | KALB News | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | KALB | 824a2a7f0004054368cb6f3478ccfe7c7467a448b85853f187ff797d1ac63869Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta Commits More Than $50 Billion for North Louisiana Project, Becoming One of the Largest Data Centers in History Archived copy | Louisiana Economic Development Government record | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Floor Area, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Expansion Announced, Power Source: Battery Storage, Power Source: Grid, Power Source: Nuclear, Power Source: Solar, Role: Developer, Role: Government, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Louisiana Economic Development | 87ec24f1852b0b90601a8255f00c1af828218d6e00b7f2f542944d1930bda3d8Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta is investing $40B more to expand Richland Parish data center project Archived copy | WRKF News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Land Area, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: Expansion Announced, Milestone: Fully Operational, Power Source: Grid | source-terms-not-recorded | WRKF | fa7ee619f1b5d40faf77a1a0bd545dece5a704cd2f6d474fcb6df423204e8261Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta Richland Parish campus and contractor identity Archived copy | Meta Company disclosure | Geometry identity context, Site distinctness context | not stated | all-rights-reserved | Meta | c2517a573f8fdc76e30b348b60c6edab79abb592e644ad1aa3d6f6a1f3c4d5e0Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Meta Richland Parish Data Center fact sheet Archived copy | Meta Platforms Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Role: Developer | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Meta Platforms | c4e2c066eda0f63a7c0e01f824eddde1ca9732d8cc5bdda6004570a29c6038a6Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Meta Richland Parish Data Center source object identity and geometry corroboration Archived copy | OpenStreetMap contributors OpenStreetMap | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | ODbL-1.0 | OpenStreetMap contributors | 7b3d653ac4a8ea367cf46cb6261a4af8138f7996cc5f58c3e4a3244bb8eb6ba3Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment 'A New Chapter' for State Archived copy | Louisiana Economic Development Government record | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Floor Area, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Land Area, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: Construction Started, Power Source: Solar, Role: Developer, Role: Government, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Louisiana Economic Development | e97ce5e8a19460a83379d9733c02ddc24afb5988d5eeaba1e12b99ac08a90997Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta's $27B Hyperion Campus: A New Blueprint for AI Infrastructure Finance Archived copy | Data Center Frontier Trade publication | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Power Source: Solar, Role: Builder, Role: Investor, Owner claim, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | Data Center Frontier | 137cf55f504a17d0c4c70ed593221ccd280dbc44ad6263e895b9f8b7513b4c7aFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Nominatim object geometry WGS84 datum Archived copy | Nominatim project Company disclosure | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | no-open-license-asserted | Nominatim project | 173fa7a8e032ccee5de4412e19d89149a898ee609c1f069253d78c444b7705a6Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Nominatim returned point and object reference semantics Archived copy | Nominatim project Company disclosure | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | no-open-license-asserted | Nominatim project | 2b22abff55df61794873a6648149a09a46262c4f409578cb8d6823de3d6b5f7eRetained source material; see source provenance | |
| OpenStreetMap attribution and ODbL terms Archived copy | OpenStreetMap Foundation OpenStreetMap | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | CC-BY-SA-2.0 | OpenStreetMap Foundation | 6fb8c3041dd598f5d63befa6ef01badc313abbb41f76431e374eafb72723fac0Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Turner July 16 Richland Parish interior buildout observation Archived copy | Turner Construction Company Company disclosure | Geometry identity context, Site distinctness context, Physical status | all-rights-reserved | Turner Construction Company | f9536829eedf4c5226ef71cec78fb4979a3cf05d3368d98cd79b3d52dad569cbRetained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Turner Richland Parish Phase 1 and Phase 2 scope boundary Archived copy | Turner Construction Company Company disclosure | Geometry identity context, Site distinctness context | not stated | all-rights-reserved | Turner Construction Company | ede8a71cb228bb548ac36c9449416356dbfd2c89bd66192b6c601e098e537482Retained source material; see source provenance |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Meta Richland Parish Data Center [site vcc-site-33110c77390f92dc4432]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-33110c77390f92dc4432/
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