Claim · 2026-07-13 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Meta stated on 13 July 2026 that the Richland Parish expansion "represents an investment of more than $50 billion" in the region.

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Claim and evidence

Metaplanned infrastructure spending of ↓

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2026-07-13 · announcement
Transaction type: infrastructure spend
Relationship context: external
Stage: planned
Amount: more than · $50,000,000,000
project

Scope and limitsA stated planned investment, not spending incurred; it supersedes the $10 billion of December 2024 as Meta's stated figure but does not show how much has been spent.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Deepening our investment in Richland Parish, Louisiana

Meta (Meta Data Centers site) · 2026-07-13

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Source excerpt

“This expansion represents an investment of more than $50 billion in the Richland Parish region”

Location in source paragraph 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Meta (Meta Data Centers site)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 aec0c5a08bb3f04bb35d2f24cf9cf250326db6b97a012f0b2ce33c9cb9eee11f). Post as served on 2026-10-28; dated "July 13, 2026". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 53972b7b91e9d2b4b3855d38d04582f7e32bbb903f8433104b7ad6dd94e81e48). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Meta (Meta Data Centers site), “Deepening our investment in Richland Parish, Louisiana”, 2026-07-13.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 53972b7b91e9d2b4b3855d38d04582f7e32bbb903f8433104b7ad6dd94e81e48; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An infrastructure spending plan, not a funding round, realised expenditure or direct investment in its customer. From schema 2.21 the object may be the identified site the plan is for.

Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.

Record ID cpo-dc-meta-richland-50bn-2026