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Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish)

Meta Hyperion Data Center is an AI data center campus developed by Meta Platforms in Louisiana, Delhi. 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 · Meta Platforms · Private land · MISO · Delhi, Louisiana, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
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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.

5th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses44th by energized capacity96th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 4,050,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: Q4 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by Meta (source).

Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) capacity claims
Source
Announced5 GW2026-07-13claimedpress release
Energized0 GW2026-08-17reportedjournalist report
Under construction2 GW2026-07-13claimedjournalist report

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q3 2026 · live Q3 2026 · 1 mo build

2018-05-06Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-05-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-06-19Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-09Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-09-18Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; 2 on record.

Building 1
Building sqft: 521,365
polygon on record (5 vertices)
Building 2
Building sqft: 490,013
polygon on record (5 vertices)

Manifest totals: 1,011,378 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

5 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Meta Platforms

Developer

United States

Location

MISO

Grid

private land

Land

5 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Hyperion bond ~94.4¢ (reported, Sep 2026)
Reported (Protos; secondary X @akburtonto, Sep 23 2026): the ~$27.3B bond package financing Meta's Hyperion AI data center (issued via Beignet Investor LLC) reportedly traded near ~94.4 cents on the dollar, described as a record low since the deal priced at par. Soft secondary-market figures from secondary coverage; not confirmed by Meta IR or a wire primary

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The story of Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish)
Announced capex
$50B
Jobs
1,000 permanent reported
Grid
MISO · Grid connected, utility build under way: Entergy Louisiana is building several new transmission facilities to serve the campus and has already broken ground on a key substation. Louisiana's public service commission approved the agreement on 20 August 2025. Entergy's own announcement does not break out line lengths, substation counts or costs.
Tenant
Meta Platforms
Derived
Cost per MW
$10M/MW
Cost per job
$50M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterLouisiana(25)

The deal

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.
developer
Meta Platforms · 20% owner of build JV; owner-operator of the compute.
tenant
Meta Platforms · Self-tenant; AI/superintelligence compute.

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
MISO
Interconnection
Grid connected, utility build under way: Entergy Louisiana is building several new transmission facilities to serve the campus and has already broken ground on a key substation. Louisiana's public service commission approved the agreement on 20 August 2025. Entergy's own announcement does not break out line lengths, substation counts or costs.
Water
Operator describes a closed-loop system circulating a glycol mixture through the data halls, with heat rejected via dry cooling for the majority of the year; a water permit is reported at roughly 23 MGD across six wells sized to peak-summer demand.

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.

The MISO grid demand right now: 82.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 21:00). Meta Hyperion Data Center's announced 5 GW would be 6.1% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Moderate drought (D1) in Richland Parish, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2024-04-10

    Meta's own AI accelerator generation deployed at Hyperion

    reported

    Meta AI

  2. as of 2024-03-12

    Nvidia complement to MTIA for training + inference at Hyperion

    reported

    Meta Engineering

Why here

Meta Hyperion Data Center sits on private land in Louisiana, Delhi. It connects to the MISO grid, draws on mixed power, interconnection is Grid connected, utility build under way: Entergy Louisiana is building several new transmission facilities to serve the campus and has already broken ground on a key substation. Louisiana's public service commission approved the agreement on 20 August 2025. Entergy's own announcement does not break out line lengths, substation counts or costs.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

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

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Capex
$50B source
Construction jobs
7,500 source
Permanent jobs
1,000 source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    capacity changed
    energized: unknown to 0
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

89efdd2f-1ec9-47a1-bb7c-a1ad597bc991 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish)?
Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Delhi. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) use?
Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) has 5 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 5 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish)?
Meta Platforms is recorded as a party to Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish) is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Meta Hyperion Data Center (Richland Parish): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/meta-hyperion-louisiana

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