Investors want more environmental info from data center owners
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are being pressured by investors to provide more data about the environmental impact of their rapidly expanding data centers, particularly...
Former BP CEO jumps into AI data center market
Bernard Looney, the former CEO of BP, is taking on the CEO role at Prometheus Hyperscale, a data center developer that hopes to funnel...
LSU’s College of Engineering to launch first degree in AI
This fall, LSU Baton Rouge is set to offer the state’s first bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence. Developed within the College of Engineering, the...
Meta to pay for seven additional gas plants needed for Louisiana data center
Meta plans to power its massive Richland Parish data center with seven additional new gas plants, reports E&E News. Under a deal announced with...
Could Rapides Parish be home to Louisiana’s next big data center project?
Public records and local economic development activity suggest that Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure developer based in Dallas, is positioning a site in Rapides Parish for a...
Regulators say Meta data center ownership shift doesn’t warrant investigation
Louisiana utility regulators last week declined to investigate Meta’s decision to shift ownership of its $28 billion Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana...
Hut 8’s West Feliciana data center to fund its own water and power upgrades
Hut 8’s planned $2.8 billion data center in West Feliciana Parish is poised to deliver more than jobs and construction spending—it’s also reshaping the infrastructure debate, The...
Is America’s data center boom slowing down?
U.S. data center construction slowed in 2025 for the first time since 2020, even as demand for artificial intelligence computing continues to surge, Bloomberg writes.
Capacity...
Amazon is investing $12B to build new data centers in north Louisiana
Amazon is investing $12 billion to build a web of data centers in northwest Louisiana, state officials announced at a press conference in Shreveport...
Meta leader addresses Louisiana data center water usage concerns
Meta expects its massive Richland Parish data center to consume roughly the same amount of water as the farmland it replaced.
That’s according to Henry Thornton, a...
