Data Center Neighbor

Louisiana project record

Meta Hyperion

Meta’s largest announced AI campus is under construction and was expanded again in July 2026.

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Location
Holly Ridge area, Louisiana
County
Richland Parish
Map point
Holly Ridge areaApproximate locality; not a parcel boundary.
Stage
Under construction / expanding
Evidence checked
Operator
Meta
Developer
Meta with Blue Owl-managed funds

Current snapshot

Meta says the campus is expanding to five gigawatts of compute capacity. The company also announced new power generation, batteries, grid work, workforce programs, and community payments; those benefit claims should be read as the project owner’s account.[1][2]

Documented scale

Announced investment
More than $50 billion[1]
Announced compute capacity
5 GW[1]

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Sources for this page

  1. Meta

    Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center

    July 20, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/teachers-local-businesses-win-as-meta-expands-louisiana-data-center/

    Meta is the project owner. Investment, capacity, job, and community-benefit claims on this page are the company’s own claims.

    Primary company update confirming the Richland Parish expansion to 5 GW and more than $50 billion of announced investment.

  2. Louisiana Illuminator, reporting by Drew Hawkins of the Gulf States Newsroom

    Crashes spike around Meta data center construction

    November 22, 2025. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://lailluminator.com/2025/11/22/meta-data-center-crashes/

    Nonprofit news outlet. Loaded directly, in full. NPR published the same reporting by the same reporter four days later, so the NPR version is a redistribution, not an independent confirmation.