Data center campus
Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish)
Meta Hyperion Data Center is an announced AI data center campus. 5 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · Private land · MISO · Delhi, Louisiana, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 5 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 5 GW | 2026-07-13 | claimed | press release |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | journalist report |
| Under construction | 2 GW | 2026-07-13 | claimed | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- Meta Platforms · 20% owner of build JV; owner-operator of the compute.
- tenant
- Meta Platforms · Self-tenant; AI/superintelligence compute.
- financier
- Blue Owl Capital · 80% of the $27B JV that finances/builds/operates the physical campus.
- utility
- Entergy Louisiana · Building the gas generation fleet (10 plants / ~7.5 GW) to serve the load.
- grid operator
- MISO · Entergy Louisiana operates within MISO.
Power
- Power source
- mixed
- Grid operator
- MISO
- Interconnection
Entergy Louisiana new gas plants (first three), 2.26 GW gas, Permitted. First three CCGT plants approved by the Louisiana PSC in 2025 to serve Hyperion.
Entergy Louisiana additional gas plants (seven more), 5.30 GW gas, Announced. Seven additional plants (~5.3 GW) sought; brings total to 10 plants / ~7.5 GW. LPSC approval pending.
Meta-funded clean/renewable generation + battery storage, 2.50 GW solar storage, Announced. Meta commits to fund up to 2.5 GW of clean and renewable energy including battery storage; also nuclear uprates.
Financial structure
- Total Meta investment in Richland Parish
- $50B. Nearly 10 million sq ft campus; up from $10B originally announced Dec 2024. journalist report
- Blue Owl Capital JV (Meta 20% / Blue Owl 80%)
- up to $27B. Oct 2025 JV to finance, build and operate the campus; up to $27B total development cost. journalist report
Sources
- Deepening our investment in Richland Parish, Louisiana · Meta Data Centers
- Meta's Louisiana data center investment to reach $50 billion · CNBC
- Meta orders 10 gas-fired power plants for its Hyperion AI campus · Fortune
- Entergy Louisiana Says 7 More Gas Plants Necessary for Meta Data Center · RTO Insider
89efdd2f-1ec9-47a1-bb7c-a1ad597bc991 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.