{"id":1020735,"date":"2026-07-14T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020735"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:19:20","slug":"metas-50-billion-louisiana-data-center-gets-a-big-tax-boost-as-ai-spending-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/metas-50-billion-louisiana-data-center-gets-a-big-tax-boost-as-ai-spending-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s $50 billion Louisiana data center gets a big tax boost as AI spending surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s massive data center project in Louisiana is set to cost more than $50 billion, but the tech giant is also benefiting from a major tax incentive given by the state as it races to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>In late 2024, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law offering a 20-year sales tax exemption to data centers built before 2029. This was part of the state\u2019s effort to attract Meta and secure a share of the growing AI investment boom. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a business guy,\u201d Landry told CNBC in an interview last year. \u201cWhat we know is when you look at the overall comprehensive package here, it\u2019s in the black.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s massive data center project in Louisiana is set to cost more than $50 billion, but the tech giant is also benefiting from a major tax incentive given by the state as it races to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure. In late 2024, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law offering a 20-year sales tax exemption to data centers built before 2029. This was part of the state\u2019s effort to attract Meta and secure a share of the growing AI investment boom. \u201cI\u2019m a business guy,\u201d Landry told CNBC in an interview last year. \u201cWhat we know is when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020736,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020735\/revisions\/1020736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}