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St. Francisville data center gets a little help from Wall Street
The bond market will help Hut 8 finance its planned $3 billion data center in St. Francisville, Bloomberg writes. The project, tied to a long-term lease backed by cloud startup Fluidstack and supported by...
Analysis finds billions of Louisiana industrial investment produced little job growth
A recent data analysis by The Data Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit in New Orleans, found that billions in industrial investment have produced minimal corresponding job growth, Verite writes.
Despite more than $90 billion in capital spending...
Tulane to host data center roundtable on Thursday
This Thursday, members of a data center roundtable at Tulane University will take a deep dive into how data center growth is reshaping energy demand, infrastructure investment and power markets.
The event, scheduled for 1...
Record investment, rising costs, carbon capture battles, clean energy pivots and crumbling infrastructure—Louisiana’s industrial...
It has been a bipolar year for Louisiana’s industrial complex. The elation over a tsunami of new investments, lower tax rates and softening regulations has been dampened in many ways by ever-changing tariffs, consistently...
Notable BP Gulf project faces lawsuit over spill risk
The Trump administration's approval of BP’s Kaskida offshore drilling project, the first BP development in the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, is being brought to court, Louisiana Illuminator writes.
Plaintiffs argue the project was approved...
