Executive order hopes to protect ratepayers from data center infrastructure costs
An executive order signed by Gov. Jeff Landry last week hopes to protect Louisiana ratepayers from the costs of data centers and other power-intensive...
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It’s official: Applied Digital is building a $3.6B data center in central Louisiana
Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure developer based in Dallas, is investing $3.6 billion to develop an artificial intelligence campus in Rapides Parish.
State officials formally announced...
Hut 8 to invest $16 million to expand West Feliciana water system
Hut 8, owner of the proposed River Bend AI data center, has agreed to pay $16 million for the expansion of local water system...
States pushing back against rate hikes as AI industry grows
The AI boom is leading to fights in some states over growing utility profits, as governors, attorneys general and others protesting rising electricity bills...
Entergy boosts spending by 33 percent to meet data center demand
Meta’s new data center in northeast Louisiana is largely responsible for Entergy recently boosting its four-year capital spending plan by some 33 percent to...
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...
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...
