Meta · Holly Ridge, Louisiana

Meta Hyperion

2.2GW projected

The power of 1.8 million US homes, once built.

Under construction. Projected to draw 2.2 GW by Jan 2028.

Chips
Rubin
Users
Meta
Project
Hyperion
Energy
Entergy
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Power over time

facility power · 5 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 20 Dec 2024 — Land clearing begins.
  2. 19 Oct 2025 — Foundations are underway for the main buildings, and the overall layout aligns with the architectural renderings published in 2025.
  3. 19 Apr 2026 — Building 1 and 2 roof is finished and cooling is at an advanced stage of installation. Building 3 and 6 roof and cooling in progress.
  4. 1 Dec 2026 · projected — New power stations are in service for a 1.8 GW load at Holly Ridge. However, the data center is still not operational.
  5. 1 Jan 2028 · projected 2.2 GW First phase is operational, based on a Meta blog post. We assume that this aligns with the three natural gas turbines being completed, for a total of 2262 MW capacity, but that these turbines have a backup role. This is close to the 1800 MW of load requested from the grid. Meta claims that "The Hyperion cluster will have a 5-gigawatt capacity once complete", but so far there is no concrete evidence for this happening at the Holly Ridge site alone.

Epoch’s release of 2 Sep 2026 planned 1 step here; 2.3 GW for Jan 2028 is 59 MW smaller. Planned against reached

Gas made 37% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. MISO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 37%
  2. Coal 26%
  3. Nuclear 14%
  4. Wind 15%
  5. Solar 6%
  6. Hydro 1%
  7. Other 1%

The grid of the utilities that serve Richland Parish, LA. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 4.7 GW of new power in Richland Parish, all gas

power plants in Richland Parish · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Franklin Farms 1&2 Gas · 1.6 GW · Dec 2028 · proposed · Entergy Louisiana LLC
  2. Richland Parish Power Station 1&2 Gas · 1.6 GW · Mar 2030 · proposed · Entergy Louisiana LLC
  3. Richland Parish Power Station 3 Gas · 780 MW · Oct 2030 · proposed · Entergy Louisiana LLC
  4. Richland Parish Power Station 4 Gas · 780 MW · Oct 2030 · proposed · Entergy Louisiana LLC

In service in Richland Parish today: 200 MW. Since January 2023: 200 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Data center profile by Meta
  2. Entergy's application for generation and transmission resources
  3. MISO update with 1.8 GW substation plan
  4. S&P Global ratings research with 2.064 GW campus details

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Holly Ridge. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.