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Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout

This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.
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Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'

Land speculators are buying up property, paying 20 or 30 times more than they would have a year ago. New business permits ...

Meta Strikes $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google to Boost AI Capacity

Meta has reportedly inked a $10 billion deal with Google for the use of its cloud services.
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Meta’s Dual-Track Data Center Strategy: Owning AI Campuses, Leasing Cloud, and Expanding Nationwide

From billion-dollar superclusters in Louisiana and Ohio to a $10B Google Cloud deal and a new Kansas City campus, Meta is ...

Louisiana officials approve $10 billion Meta AI facility as questions about electricity costs remain

Estimates suggest that the AI center will need roughly three times the amount of electricity that the city of New Orleans uses in a year ...

How Pimco Outmaneuvered Apollo and KKR to Win $29 Billion Meta Deal

The bank pitted the two teams against each other for the right to give some $29 billion to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms ...