Somehow just learned Louisiana will be the site of a $10B AI data center for Meta

www.opportunitylouisiana.gov

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

Somehow completely missed this plan that has been in the works for a very long time.

And in completely surprising twist of fate, turns out we're not the only state 🙃

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The real loss is all the electricity that will be completely wasted in training and maintaining these models. All to push technologies that inevitably reduce real human labor, with knock-on effects.
This is a boot, with its foot on your neck.
- Unsurprisingly the model for this meta AI data factory is almost identical to Musk's xAI data factories I've been trying to call attention to for months.
  Giant data centers, build them where you think people will be less likely to have power to complain, pollute the shit out of those areas, and then ignore any regulations because you control the federal (and soon the state) government.
  Soon coming to the UK as well.
  https://www.uktech.news/ai/elon-musks-xai-starts-hiring-in-london-after-setting-up-shop-20250108