Louisiana Greenlights Massive Power Projects for Meta Data Center

August 27, 2025--Written by Jesse Broehl for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--A package of major power generation projects including 2.25 gigawatts (GW) of gas plants and at least 1.5 GW of solar power was approved by Louisiana state regulators on August 20. The projects hinge on the power needed to run a massive data center campus planned by Meta Platforms Incorporated (Menlo Park, California) in Richland Parish, Louisiana, named Hyperion.