Can Louisiana’s energy grid keep up with the AI gold rush?
Louisiana’s blossoming AI data center market has been the cause of much excitement and much consternation in recent months, as the thrill of multibillion-dollar...
Australia and Louisiana partner for advanced manufacturing and clean energy
Australia-based Geelong’s Advanced Fiber Cluster has signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Trade Center New Orleans to formalize a long-term strategic partnership...
How AI’s $3 trillion build-out Is rewriting the rules of debt markets
The artificial intelligence boom is reshaping global credit markets as lenders race to finance an estimated $3 trillion build-out of data centers powering next-generation...
Meta signs $6 billion fiber-optic cable agreement
Meta has signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $6 billion to buy fiber-optic cable from Corning, accelerating the build-out of U.S. data centers...
Louisiana launches humanoid robotics pilot at St. Bernard fabrication facility
Louisiana has entered into a public-private partnership with robotics firm Persona AI to pilot humanoid robots in an active industrial setting, positioning the state as an...
Jacobs to manage design and construction of $10 billion Hut 8 project
Dallas-based Jacobs will serve as the engineering, procurement and construction management partner for the $10 billion Hut 8 project, in collaboration with Vertiv, a...
AI boom sparks fight between the feds and states over who controls the grid
As America’s AI arms race accelerates, a quiet but consequential power struggle is unfolding over who controls the energy that will fuel it, The Wall...
Fast-tracked power plants put Louisiana ratepayers on the hook, critics say
Louisiana regulators have approved a sweeping rule change that could significantly accelerate how power plants are approved for energy-hungry industrial projects, including large data...
Hut 8 lands a massive partnership for its West Feliciana data center
Hut 8 has secured a multibillion-dollar partnership with Anthropic and Fluidstack, a deal that puts the company’s planned River Bend data center in West Feliciana...
Meta moving forward: Entergy to break ground on power facilities in north Louisiana
Entergy Louisiana broke ground Monday on two new power generation facilities in north Louisiana aimed at supporting new economic development in the region, including...
