Facebook's parent company Meta says it will build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana.

The data center will take up 4 million square feet of an industrial site in the northern half of the state that once held a headlight factory.

George Franklin Sr. a 14-year-old runaway orphan, jumped off a train in Holly Ridge, Louisiana, in 1909 and lived the American dream.

The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion facility will transform an economically neglected corner of the state.

The facility in Louisiana’s Richland Parish will span more than 4 million square feet and ranks as the tech giant’s largest AI investment to date.

Meta projects the artificial intelligence data center will support 500 or more direct new jobs in Richland Parish. Louisiana Economic Development (LED) estimates the project will result in the creation of more than 1,

Facebook-parent Meta said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana, in what would be the tech company's largest data center in the world. The hyperscaler data center,

The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook's parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) said Wednesday it plans to spend $10B to build a 4M sq ft artificial intelligence data center in Louisiana, in what would be the company's largest data center in the world.