The Public Service Commission voted 4-1 in favor of the plan proposed by Louisiana’s largest energy provider, Entergy. The vote represented a key step for Meta’s $10 billion facility to continue.
The facility is set to be built on former farmland the size of 70 football fields, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has previously said he would expand it to rival the footprint of Manhattan.
Commissioner Foster Campbell, who represents the district where the data center will be built, said he is in “for this project 1,000%.”
Louisiana lawmakers, including Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA), have welcomed the project, but the project has drawn criticism due to its large energy needs.
Much of the debate has been fixated on whether average electricity ratepayers and businesses statewide
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