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re: 3 Data Centers to be built in north Louisiana?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:33 pm to SuperSaint
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:33 pm to SuperSaint
Not a troll. It’s concerning. Maybe they won’t cause harm or increase in utilities and water, or harm our water or land. Or us. But we don’t know.
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:42 pm to fightin tigers
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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.
Gotcha. I was way off. I guess scale matters. Found a December 2025 article saying they will use approx 1.5 MGD. And then there was a quote from today where a META rep said that they will use less to the same amount as was previously used for crop irrigation (but didn't give numbers).
The article also mentioned how they are paying to massively expand the Town of Delhi wastewater treatment plant since that's where they're going to send their wastewater (sanitary, utility, cooling water blowdown, water treatment wastewater, etc.)
This post was edited on 2/24/26 at 6:04 am
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:49 pm to Dixie2023
In Dec. of 2000, BR had a short cold spell. We ran our heater for close to a week. Our normal $60-80 electric bill had a $450 fuel adjustment tacked on. Everybody else got similar an d complained. Entergy let us all know really quick that if we didn't like it, we should play a long game of Hide and Go frick Yourselves. That would be the equivalent of an $800 fuel adjustment now.
I moved to FL the following May. It has been refreshing to see taxes used for infrastructure instead of just all being stolen. The last one out of LA should turn the lights out.
I moved to FL the following May. It has been refreshing to see taxes used for infrastructure instead of just all being stolen. The last one out of LA should turn the lights out.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:50 pm to Hangit
Howdy my friend!!!!
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:04 pm to Dixie2023
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Leave the land alone.
Were they doing anything with the land prior?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:07 pm to Scruffy
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And the public will be forced to carry the cost of running these centers through their electricity bills
Not according to a family friend who’s very high up in SWEPCO. As in COO.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:08 pm to nicholastiger
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Entergy about to rape us all on top of future hurricane replacement costs
They gonna leave all the increased rates on us
Louisiana might lose a congressional seat in both of the next 2 census counts.
Elections have consequences.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:12 pm to fightin tigers
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Probably thinking of DOW and Teflon. Whatever the name of the chemical was.
Titanium Dioxide.
They still make it, they just split it off into a different company called Chemours.
They poisoned something like 90% of the country's drinking water, but they got paid the frick back when China stole their formula for the compound. They used to be the world's only producer, now China makes 2/3rd's of it.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:18 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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Town of Delhi
Ia anyone living in that big mansion? Massive bass can be caught in the ponds up front.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:39 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.
I find this fascinating in that the same people love Trump.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:46 pm to fightin tigers
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70% of Louisiana’s electrical capacity currently supplies industrial customers. All that has done was give us some of the lowest utility rates in the country. Why do yall think data centers change anything?
70% of Louisiana’s electrical capacity currently supplies industrial customers. All that has done was give us some of the lowest utility rates in the country. Why do yall think data centers change anything?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:56 pm to Jdiggy
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. All that has done was give us some of the lowest utility rates in the country. Why do yall think data centers change anything
How do industrial customers lower the rates?
Does the access to historically cheap natural gas have a larger impact on rates?
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:57 pm to dukke v
ge Duckie 
How are things treating you up there? I am all fat, dumb, and happy down here.
How are things treating you up there? I am all fat, dumb, and happy down here.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:03 pm to Dixie2023
They probably did what some prominent lawyers did to him after he won the governors race. He was supposed to.. what's it called? The tort situation? Make it a little less easy for lawyers to sue.. They took him to a hunting camp in Texas for a long weekend and all of a sudden he was done with it.
Im sure he is going to get as much out of them as he can.
Im sure he is going to get as much out of them as he can.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:44 pm to UltimaParadox
Everyone in these threads (Republican or Democrat) is probably on the same page about wanting what is best for Louisiana.
This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 7:37 am
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:51 pm to moncouer
quote:I don’t think much is flared in N La, but Perryville is right down the road from Meta.
While there is an overabundance of nat gas (flaring) at this time (OT oil and gas folks)
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:59 pm to fightin tigers
This is true, once built, there will be less than 300 full time jobs at the Holly Ridge site
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:33 pm to UltimaParadox
There is alot to unpack in that Bloomberg article.
Firstly, they are focusing on LMP (Localized Marginal Pricing) which is just an energy charge, basically, mega watt hours being used. This is largely driven by natural gas and coal pricing (basically generation fuel costs).
Wholesale electricity comes in 3 parts, energy (mwh), capacity (the amount of generation needed in each area), and transmission (socialized cost of grid maintenance and upgrades). Energy and Capacity is paid by the offtaker and passed on to the customer. The only socialized cost is the transmission.
Capacity is the larger problem right now. Capacity charges have increased by a factor north of 60%. Data centers and large industrial projects are creating a demand issue. MISO South, today, is projected to be gigawatts short by 2031. This is why they created the ERAS program, to fast track generation project studies and approvals. They are sitting on a 7 year queue for generation interconnection studies. This demand is hitting fast, and it isn't just MISO.
Where Virginia has all of these data centers, is where the United States' two major internet hubs exist. This is why data centers are there. This MISO equivalent there is PJM, that areas regional transmission organization (RTO).
We are trying to learn lessons from them. Energy companies are pushing to have these large data center "hyperscalers" provide their own generation. This is a slow movement as the building of natural gas plants are long, drawn out processes and hyperscalers (META, AWS, Google...etc) want it now and can pay for it.
We can learn from early adopters and not make the same energy mistakes.
As for Louisiana, Entergy is building plants and doing transmission upgrades to accommodate the data centers. With the building of these plants and some small scale solar and storage projects, this will alleviate the capacity constraints that were being predicted. The capacity market is projected to level off by 2029/2030. Large increases in capacity costs that were seen as recent as this year are not expected to be seen like this again (in MISO South at least).
Firstly, they are focusing on LMP (Localized Marginal Pricing) which is just an energy charge, basically, mega watt hours being used. This is largely driven by natural gas and coal pricing (basically generation fuel costs).
Wholesale electricity comes in 3 parts, energy (mwh), capacity (the amount of generation needed in each area), and transmission (socialized cost of grid maintenance and upgrades). Energy and Capacity is paid by the offtaker and passed on to the customer. The only socialized cost is the transmission.
Capacity is the larger problem right now. Capacity charges have increased by a factor north of 60%. Data centers and large industrial projects are creating a demand issue. MISO South, today, is projected to be gigawatts short by 2031. This is why they created the ERAS program, to fast track generation project studies and approvals. They are sitting on a 7 year queue for generation interconnection studies. This demand is hitting fast, and it isn't just MISO.
Where Virginia has all of these data centers, is where the United States' two major internet hubs exist. This is why data centers are there. This MISO equivalent there is PJM, that areas regional transmission organization (RTO).
We are trying to learn lessons from them. Energy companies are pushing to have these large data center "hyperscalers" provide their own generation. This is a slow movement as the building of natural gas plants are long, drawn out processes and hyperscalers (META, AWS, Google...etc) want it now and can pay for it.
We can learn from early adopters and not make the same energy mistakes.
As for Louisiana, Entergy is building plants and doing transmission upgrades to accommodate the data centers. With the building of these plants and some small scale solar and storage projects, this will alleviate the capacity constraints that were being predicted. The capacity market is projected to level off by 2029/2030. Large increases in capacity costs that were seen as recent as this year are not expected to be seen like this again (in MISO South at least).
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:40 pm to UltimaParadox
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This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 7:38 am
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