Entergy to Build Three Gas Plants for Meta’s Biggest Data Center

Bloomberg.com · last updated August 20, 2025 – 4:47 PM

Louisiana’s utility regulator approved Entergy Corp.’s plan to build three new natural gas plants to power Meta’s biggest data center, the company said in a news release Wednesday.

Meta’s latest and largest data center is a 4 million–square–foot complex in rural Louisiana intended to support the company’s most powerful artificial intelligence models. It’s expected to eventually consume, at full capacity, as much as 5 gigawatts of electricity.

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