Meta is building what it says will be its largest data center globally on the former Franklin Farm megasite, grown from a 10 billion dollar announcement to a 50 plus billion dollar, nearly 10 million square foot, 5 GW campus called Hyperion. Entergy Louisiana is building three gas plants and a 100 mile transmission line for it, approved 4 to 1 by the Public Service Commission amid controversy over ratepayer exposure.
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Most of the county is served by Entergy Louisiana.
This case, still open as of August 2026, will help decide whether seven new gas plants built mainly for one company's data center get repaid entirely by that company or partly by everyday Entergy Louisiana customers. A commission decision was reportedly expected around December 2026, though that timeline was not confirmed by the commission itself. Watch for how the Louisiana Public Service Commission enforces cost sharing if Meta's actual power use ever falls short of what was promised, since that is what determines whether these plants ever show up on a typical household bill.
In an application opened around late March 2026, Entergy Louisiana asked regulators to approve a much larger second phase for Meta's Richland Parish data center: seven additional gas combined cycle power plants totaling more than 5,200 megawatts, plus roughly 240 miles of new transmission lines. Consumer and environmental groups have asked the Louisiana Public Service Commission to investigate the financing structure, saying Meta is withholding information regulators need to judge whether Louisiana households are protected if the data center ends up using less power than projected.
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