Entergy Louisiana has received the green light to move forward with its plan to power Meta's massive $10 billion data center in North Louisiana. The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC), the body that regulates the utility, voted 4-1 on Wednesday to ...

The first phase of construction will produce two 450,000-square-foot buildings, the first to be completed by the end of the year, the second to be completed before the end of 2026.

State utility regulators approved a plan Wednesday to install three natural-gas fueled power plants for the tech company Meta, which needs the electricity for a massive data center it’s building in Northeast Louisiana.

Land speculators are buying up property, paying 20 or 30 times more than they would have a year ago. New business permits have tripled. Three new hotels and a Dollar General are in the works. And there's growing pains,

Fast-tracking a vote that was originally expected to happen two months from now, state utility regulators plan to decide Wednesday whether to approve a controversial power plant Entergy wants to build specifically for tech company Meta to run a giant data center planned for northeast Louisiana.

Entergy is expected to ask members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission to speed up the approval process when the state regulatory agency reconvenes next Wednesday, August 20, two months early.

Baton Rouge-based MMR has quickly expanded from its core business building refineries, petrochemical plants and other nodes of the energy industry into the multibillion-dollar infrastructure boom that's underway in the tech sector.