Claim · 2024-12-04 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Louisiana Economic Development announced on 4 December 2024 that Meta would build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in Richland Parish, northeast Louisiana.

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What it connects

Meta → announced site →

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Metaannounced site ↓

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2024-12-04 · announcement
Stage: announced
Amount: exact · $10,000,000,000
project

Scope and limitsA state agency's account of Meta's announcement; Meta's own December 2024 post was not retrieved. The $10 billion is a stated planned investment, and the release states no capacity in megawatts.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment ‘A New Chapter’ for State

Louisiana Economic Development (State of Louisiana) · 2024-12-04

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Source excerpt

“Meta announced it will build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana”

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: Louisiana Economic Development (State of Louisiana)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 f3dd75ba76362435c363d00f0c9e6642d857cce57e15609c526069494cd4e809). News release page as served on 2026-10-28; dated "December 4, 2024 • News Release". A state agency's account of Meta's announcement; Meta's own December 2024 post not retrieved. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 c2c77582c5819c55365e356a6e6186e538c6202170dcfdbb0550c3b5867a1ce9). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Louisiana Economic Development (State of Louisiana), “Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment ‘A New Chapter’ for State”, 2024-12-04.
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 c2c77582c5819c55365e356a6e6186e538c6202170dcfdbb0550c3b5867a1ce9; 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 10) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment ‘A New Chapter’ for State

Louisiana Economic Development (State of Louisiana) · 2024-12-04

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Paraphrase

the release is datelined Richland Parish, La., and refers to the data center planned for Richland Parish.

Location in source paragraph 1 (dateline)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Louisiana Economic Development (State of Louisiana)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 f3dd75ba76362435c363d00f0c9e6642d857cce57e15609c526069494cd4e809). News release page as served on 2026-10-28; dated "December 4, 2024 • News Release". A state agency's account of Meta's announcement; Meta's own December 2024 post not retrieved. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 c2c77582c5819c55365e356a6e6186e538c6202170dcfdbb0550c3b5867a1ce9). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Louisiana Economic Development (State of Louisiana), “Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment ‘A New Chapter’ for State”, 2024-12-04.
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 paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 10) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. 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. A party announced a data-centre site, campus or other infrastructure, dated by the announcement. An announcement is not construction, operation, ownership or a contract.

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

Record ID cpo-dc-meta-richland-announced