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Meta is doubling down on its Louisiana AI data center

Meta is scaling up what was already slated to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has fueled “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses.The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post on Monday that the Richland Parish data center,…

A Wyoming city found a rare bacterium in wastewater tied to a Meta data center

Officials in the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a massive, under-construction Meta data center campus located just south of the city is responsible for contaminating part of its recycled water system.Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities said in recent public notices that water discharged by Goat Systems, a Meta contractor at…

The data center boom is colliding with the midterms

More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.The energy-hungry computing infrastructure being built to meet the explosive demand for artificial intelligence has sparked opposition to rising electric bills, water…