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re: 3 Data Centers to be built in north Louisiana?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:17 pm to Scruffy
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:17 pm to Scruffy
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If you have any info to counter that, please enlighten me.
The one being built a few miles from my house is so big it will blow your mind. It will 150+ maintenance people to take care of the grounds and day to day tasks. The number of permanent jobs they tout for that one alone is 500. I don't have a clue if it will take that many. More conservative estimates I've heard are around 300. Regardless, the total of permanent jobs created by all these things state wide will exceed 150, like your stupid arse said.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 6:19 pm
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:18 pm to LSUballs
quote:And this one is where?
The one being built a few miles from my house is so big it will blow your mind.
quote:So, every source that is pro-data center is incorrect on their estimate of average staffing numbers?
Regardless, the total of permanent jobs created by all these things will exceed 150, like your stupid arse said.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:24 pm to Burt Reynolds
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Da lil govnah don’t give one single frick about the well being of the state’s citizens. He gets a handout from the tech companies building the data center while we suffer high energy costs and pollution as a result.
Just like Bel Edwards
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:27 pm to Scruffy
You should go back to referring to yourself in third person. That was so cool and funny.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:31 pm to LSUballs
quote:I still do on occasion.
You should go back to referring to yourself in third person.
quote:I know.
That was so cool and funny.
I feel like you are getting heated over this discussion.
Someone’s livelihood is reliant on these centers?
You still didn’t tell me where the one you live by is being built.
There is a massive difference between “data center outside of Austin” and “data center in St. Tammany Parish”.
One will get a campus, one will not.
LA will not get multi-hundred job campuses. Sorry, they could never convince that number of engineers and staff to move there and the staff isn’t coming from the local populace.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:34 pm to Scruffy
These are a net negative longterm no matter which way you slice it.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:37 pm to LSUballs
quote:The way I see it is that Data Centers are here to stay, might as well be on the bus. They generate global economic activity in that what is the end point of the electricity they use spawns data/information that will put people to work all over the world. Literally.
The one being built a few miles from my house is so big it will blow your mind. It will 150+ maintenance people to take care of the grounds and day to day tasks. The number of permanent jobs they tout for that one alone is 500. I don't have a clue if it will take that many. More conservative estimates I've heard are around 300.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:39 pm to Scruffy
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Sorry, they could never convince that number of engineers and staff to move there and the staff isn’t coming from the local populace.
Im laughing because people will go where the jobs are. South Louisiana is a hotbed for some of the greatest engineering minds because that is where the work is.
The maintenance labor is just labor. A guy who can replace a pump in a industrial plant will fit right in at a data center. You dont need a high tech degree to pull it off.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 6:49 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:46 pm to Dixie2023
quote:Ok I guess I’ll ask. Why all the negativity about building data centers? Seems short sighted and ignorant to me, but…
Why are they ruining our state?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:50 pm to Scruffy
Hearing the meta data center is gonna end up being a 60-80 billion investment, it is gonna be a monster.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:53 pm to Scruffy
quote:
Sorry, they could never convince that number of engineers and staff to move there and the staff isn’t coming from the local populace.
Uh, Louisiana is one of the top states in the union for engineering jobs per capita.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - engineering jobs
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:56 pm to fightin tigers
Yeah. The water use issue is overblown for the META site. Closed loop cooling. The powerplants will be air cooled too.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:57 pm to JawjaTigah
quote:
Ok I guess I’ll ask. Why all the negativity about building data centers? Seems short sighted and ignorant to me, but…
The secrecy and lack of transparency doesn't help them. Seems like everyone involved needs to sign an NDA and it leads to rumors running wild with no way to put the cat back in the bag.
Couple that with the politician mentality that you have to sell the farm to bring in data centers.
Anti-tech, anti-capitalism, pro-environment groups spin up gross exaggerations then place them all over the internet to where every Google search returns the same notes. Those notes then get brought to places like this and consumed as facts without research.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:01 pm to Dixie2023
quote:solid troll Baw
Why are they ruining our state?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:03 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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The water use issue is overblown for the META site. Closed loop cooling.
Someone, possibly in this thread, will say they are not closed loop.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:10 pm to fightin tigers
quote:
Someone, possibly in this thread, will say they are not closed loop.
Even with a closed loop system you still have the initial startup and blowdown water. But it's probably tens of thousands of gallons per day on average, not millions.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:13 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
META is landing in the 1MM gal area for summer estimates. That is for a full data center which will be years or decades away.
It sounds like but in reality isn't.
It sounds like but in reality isn't.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:13 pm to fightin tigers
quote:Sure, but LA has had substantial issues with tech hiring in the past.
Im laughing because people will go where the jobs are. South Louisiana is a hotbed for some of the greatest engineering minds because that is where the work is.
Multiple tech companies have left LA and meeting hiring expectations had been a factor for all of them.
And LA is a hotbed for “certain types” of engineering.
“Tech” isn’t exactly LA’s forte.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:16 pm to Scruffy
What type of tech matters. You probably won't get developers or architects flocking in. That isn't what these sites will do though.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:17 pm to fightin tigers
quote:Agreed.
What type of tech matters
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