Ed Ludlow

They have in development more than 30...

data centers.

And this is the biggest.

It's in rural Louisiana.

And with today's announcement, we are actually going to see a total of 10 natural gas plants serving this one single data center.

It's a massive amount of energy from fossil fuels.

And it is just another push forward in this expansion of a major project.

Yeah, I mean, this is a huge increase just from Meta's own fleet.

When it was 5 gigawatts alone, that was about a 33x increase from the old data center size.

This is much bigger than other competitors, but I want to say 5 gigawatt is just to support the compute.

This entire facility is right now expected to have 7.5 gigawatts powering it because it's not just the GPUs that need the power, but the broader facility.

Absolutely.

We saw recently President Donald Trump actually require that big tech companies pledge to pay those costs.

This is something Meta has been saying for quite some time, but they don't want to ruffle feathers in a political moment that is already bringing a great amount of scrutiny to these data centers.

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Everyone believes that America should export its technology, be that hardware or software.

whether they should or not to China, that's where there's differing opinions.

And in our reporting, that's been what's in front of the president.

There are people around him who are from industry and they want American technology out there.