Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Meta is expanding its Louisiana compute campus with another $40B, targeting over 5GW and a total cost above $250B.
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/meta-s-louisiana-data-center-to-surpass-250-billion-price-tag"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260713/i15.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260713/p15#a260713p15" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Riley Griffin / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/meta-s-louisiana-data-center-to-surpass-250-billion-price-tag">Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B</a></b></span> — Meta Platforms Inc. has committed to spending an additional $40 billion on its sprawling data center campus in Louisiana … </p>
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