PSC Hastens Entergy’s Request for Power Plants

Entergy Louisiana gains regulatory approval for massive Meta power project

Meta is building a $10 billion data center in north Louisiana. Entergy Louisiana plans to spend $3.2 billion on a power plant to run the center, plus additional money on a related gas plant in south Louisiana and transmission lines. (Meta)PLAQUEMINE – State utility regulators approved a plan Wednesday to install three natural-gas fueled power plants for the tech company Meta, which needs the electricity for a massive data center it’s building in…

PSC hastens Entergy’s request for power plants

The state Public Service Commission (PSC) sped up, by two months, its schedule to consider Entergy’s plan to build three new power plants to support Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) data center under construction in Richland Parish.

Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'

Life always moved slowly in Richland Parish, a rural farming area in north Louisiana, until construction started on Meta's $10 billion AI data center. The rapid change is at once exciting and unsettling for local residents and officials who say…

Affordable energy advocates urge PSC to wait to vote on requests to build plants for Meta AI data center

The Alliance for Affordable Energy is requesting that the state Public Service Commission delay its vote on new power plants that would serve a massive AI data center being built by Facebook's parent company, Meta, in Richland Parish.  The group says that the PSC needs to wait until October to vote on Entergy's requests to build the new plants to power the data center because there are too many unanswered questions about how much Louisiana resid…

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PSC vote: Fast-tracking a vote that was originally expected to happen two months from now, state utility regulators plan to decide Wednesday whether to approve a controversial power plant Entergy wants to build specifically for tech company Meta to run a giant data center planned for northeast Louisiana. A utility ratepayer advocacy group that opposes the project says this attempt to rush the Louisiana Public Service Commission’s approval has be…