Meta (Facebook) is destroying 2500 acres of farmland in Louisiana to build a Mega Data Center. The AI Takeover is here.
Someone explain to me why all this monster AI data Center construction all over America. So ChatGPT can process AI requests?
On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.
Enter Meta---the sixth-largest company in the world by market cap. The tech giant is keen on making Richland home to its wildest AI aspirations—courtesy of a tremendous amount of new gas-fired power. The region has ample land and sits adjacent to Louisiana’s huge Haynesville Shale gas field.
In December, construction began on Meta’s biggest-yet data center: a $10 billion complex of nine buildings, housing bank upon bank of servers that will take up over 4 million square feet, an area larger than Disneyland.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-sinking-10-billion-rural-100000651.html
The locals are happy about the jobs. There will be a power plant built just for the ai facility next door. I don’t know about any adverse environmental impact it might cause and I think the power will be natural gas. This is what I’ve heard so far.
But they'll have the pictures of all my dogs & cats, plus my Emails to Putin. 🤔🤨😂🤣