{"id":1021489,"date":"2026-07-16T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021489"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:10:14","slug":"meta-gives-long-update-on-hyperion-data-center-project-in-rural-louisiana-the-us-state-that-signed-into-law-a-20-year-sales-tax-exemption-for-data-centers-to-welcome-mark-zuckerbergs-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/meta-gives-long-update-on-hyperion-data-center-project-in-rural-louisiana-the-us-state-that-signed-into-law-a-20-year-sales-tax-exemption-for-data-centers-to-welcome-mark-zuckerbergs-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta gives &#8216;long update&#8217; on Hyperion data center project in rural Louisiana, the US State that signed into law a 20-year sales tax exemption for data centers to welcome Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta has shared a detailed update on its Hyperion AI data center project in rural Louisiana. The company says the plant will reach 5 GW of capacity and cost over $50 billion. This comes after Louisiana decided to offer sales tax exemptions for up to 20 years on new data centers constructed by 2029, an initiative passed in late 2024 as the state tried to lure Meta\u2019s investment.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Hyperion, located in Richland Parish, will become Meta&#8217;s largest data center. The project was originally planned as a 2 GW campus, with an estimated cost that later increased through successive project updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta has shared a detailed update on its Hyperion AI data center project in rural Louisiana. The company says the plant will reach 5 GW of capacity and cost over $50 billion. This comes after Louisiana decided to offer sales tax exemptions for up to 20 years on new data centers constructed by 2029, an initiative passed in late 2024 as the state tried to lure Meta\u2019s investment. The company said Hyperion, located in Richland Parish, will become Meta&#8217;s largest data center. The project was originally planned as a 2 GW campus, with an estimated cost that later increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021489","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021490,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021489\/revisions\/1021490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}