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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

Regulators in Louisiana paved the way Wednesday for a Meta artificial intelligence facility to be built in the state. The Public Service Commission voted 4-1 in favor of the plan proposed by Louisiana ...

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 ...