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Meta's large AI-focused data center campus under construction in Louisiana, part of its push to expand compute capacity for AI training.
Richland Parish's annual sales tax revenue rose from $21 million in 2024 to $39 million in 2025 as Meta built Hyperion, Grow NELA data shows. Business Insider reports the crews also strain local housing, but only the revenue side of that trade-off comes with figures.
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Meta cut $3.9 billion from its 2025 tax bill with research credits after classing AI data-center chips as pilot models, The New York Times reported. A reserve that grew alongside the credits suggests an IRS win would cost Meta more in cash than in reported profit.
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The CBC vice chair told CNBC that at least 60 of his 62 colleagues would back a bill on AI guardrails, and that competition with China should not be part of it. The caucus holds 29% of House Democratic seats.
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About $1.2 trillion of data-center leases that have not begun and $1.9 trillion of chip and equipment purchase agreements sit in the footnotes of nine tech firms whose capex over the past year was around $600 billion.
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Trump says towns that refuse data centers are making a mistake. The headline jobs figure for OpenAI's Ohio campus is 35,000 construction roles and about 2,500 permanent ones.
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Noreva expects US gas above $10 per million BTU at some hubs, against just under $3 at Henry Hub today. Fuel is roughly half the cost of power from a large plant.
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