Meta's Richland Parish, Louisiana data center expansion will reach 5GW of compute capacity, increasing the announced investment from an original $10 billion plan to over $50 billion. Bloomberg reports the total site cost could exceed $250 billion when including chips, though Meta has only publicly disclosed $50 billion for the facility itself.
Meta's $50B datacenter investment for 5GW capacity locks in significant compute demand and will strain local energy grids for years.