Meta Hyperion (Richland Parish)
AI data center in Holly Ridge, Louisiana, operated by Meta.
Meta's largest planned AI cluster, in Richland Parish, Louisiana, with $50B+ of investment. Entergy is building gas generation for the site.
- Live power
- —
- Planned power
- 5,000MW 1
- Status
- Under construction
- Accelerators
- —
Power: what each source says
Meta's site page says 5 GW of compute capacity and elsewhere 'over two gigawatts'; a Meta spokesperson said 2 GW by 2030, scaling to 5 GW later. MISO plan: 1.8 GW substation load. Epoch AI projects first phase (~1.6 GW IT) operational ~2028 (estimate); satellite review 2026-04-19: buildings 1-2 roofed.
Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.
Tenants
Meta
Campus facts
- Operator
- Meta 1
- Owner / developer
- Meta 1
- City
- Holly Ridge 1
- State / region
- Louisiana (Richland Parish) 1
- Country
- United States 1
- First power
- 2028 1
- Chips
- NVIDIA Rubin expected (Epoch AI) 1
- GPUs / accelerators
- Not published
- Cooling
- liquid (closed-loop glycol, dry cooling most of the year) 1
- Power source
- gas (Entergy-built plants) plus grid 1
- Coordinates
- 32.48° N, 91.62° W (town level)
- Verified
Sources
- Meta: Richland Parish Data Center accessed 2026-11-09
- Gizmodo: Meta is building massive gigawatt data centers accessed 2026-11-09
- S&P Global Ratings: Hyperion campus research accessed 2026-11-09
- Epoch AI, AI data centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0, updated 2026-11-06) (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09