Meta Hyperion
Richland Parish, Richland Parish, Louisiana
Approximate area
A permit or approval is on record. Construction may not have started.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Tue, 08 Se). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Permitted (inferred)
- Owner
- Owner not independently traced
- Capacity
- 5,000 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Richland Parish
- State
- Louisiana
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- MISO
Location and nearby
Meta Hyperion is on record as permitted in Richland Parish, Louisiana. A record puts its capacity at 5,000 MW. 11 other campuses are on record within 25 miles. The nearest is 7.3 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Proposed 7.3 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 7.3 mi approximate
Proposed · Richland Parish, LA
- 7.6 mi approximate
Proposed · Richland Parish, LA
- 7.9 mi approximate
Proposed · Richland Parish, LA
- 7.9 mi approximate
Proposed · Richland Parish, LA
- 8.2 mi approximate
Proposed · Richland Parish, LA
- 8.3 mi approximate
Proposed · Richland Parish, LA
What is on record
Owner
Owner not independently traced
Listed as Meta by DataCentersExposed. We have not verified that against a filing.
What the signal was
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dce directory attribution
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Filed by: Meta
- Capacity
- 5,000 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Meta · Meta / Blue Owl · Meta Louisiana Data Center · Meta Platforms, Inc.
How the status changed
- Permitted Aug 7, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: approved|approved; source press
- Under construction Sep 7, 2026 inferred
DCE status 'under_construction'
About this data
Evidence
Directory listing only
One or more public directories list it. We have not matched it to a filing.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
directory, tracker lead. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
3 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Meta Hyperion: https://www.nola.com/news/business/meta-louisiana-ai-data-center-richland-parish/article_d1308014-c718-4c34-a75f-476a151 US-LA | Context | url=https://www.nola.com/news/business/meta-louisiana-ai-data-center-richland-parish/article_d1308014-c718-4c34-a75f-476a151ef1a7.html | Aug 7, 2026 last changed on the server |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=meta-hyperion-richland-parish-la | Aug 7, 2026 last changed on the server |
| dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US | Primary | slug=meta-louisiana-data-center | Sep 7, 2026 last changed on the server |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0. © DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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