Meta says it will spend an extra $40 billion on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana in its quest for more compute power
THE SO WHAT
An extra $40B for a 4,000-acre campus that needs 10 methane turbines and 3x New Orleans’ electricity is AI capex turning into energy and land strategy. If you’re planning serious model training or inference at scale, power sourcing, grid politics, and siting are now first-order design constraints, not someone else’s problem.
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