@bayouboyz7: 6-23-26. Meeting tonight Julius Patrick Civic Center. Express your concerns. Applied Digital Corporation announced plans to develop a $3.6 billion, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) factory campus in Rapides Parish. Known as Delta Forge 1, the facility is purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference workloads, marking a major milestone in Central Louisiana’s economic growth and digital infrastructure expansion. The new campus will directly support 200 new full-time, on-site jobs with salaries 150% of the state average wage. The project will create over 1,000 construction jobs at peak construction. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project will result in an additional 218 indirect new jobs, for a total of 418 potential new job opportunities in the Central Region. #datacenter #construction #jobs #ironworker #pipefitter
Come on down baby you can stay with me and look at them new AI
2026-07-08 09:29:20
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pops :
Is that Andrew ??
2026-07-09 01:19:34
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redpoole :
Tracking Centers. Not data Centers
2026-06-23 23:02:57
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Jon :
How bout we say screw the data centers & rebuild all our coal fire power plants that the damn democrats shut down & told everyone to go green fast forward to 2026 & so far we have 2 warehouses in less than 2 weeks that are up in flames poisoning their communities with chemicals from lithium in the air…. We can’t afford data centers we need our coal fires back!
2026-06-23 22:37:42
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Tanner Ray :
How are they going to use up to 5 million gallons of water a day?
2026-06-24 22:43:35
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David :
used to be nice farm land
2026-06-24 01:48:58
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Pat 🙄 :
How you know it all
2026-06-26 18:45:20
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#Trumptok :
They are not pulling water out of rivers, they are pulling out of wells witch will dry up the semi deep wells..
2026-06-24 02:35:29
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scottzoj95t :
Cleco bought land near that data center in 2024 so that’s how long it a been looked at
2026-06-25 08:14:57
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BabsMcGillicuty :
Nvidia says its new data center design will fix AI’s water problem | Fortune https://share.google/Nnqc0zThr1NyX6gWe
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that's not the same as fixing AI's water problem | TechCrunch https://share.google/7TGgCKcNp4naGjBS3
But that’s only part of the water story. As long as AI data centers run on fossil fuels — a choice tech companies are increasingly making — the savings stop at the data center’s walls.
The core issue is how Nvidia measures data center water use. According to its blog post, the company essentially draws a line around the data center. Anything inside gets counted, and anything outside gets ignored.
To be fair, Nvidia’s system does appear to deliver on its facility-level promise — the coolant runs in a closed loop, filled once and recirculated for the life of the facility, meaning no new water is consumed to cool the chips. In favorable climates, the company says, that can amount to a 100% reduction in on-site water use.
TechCrunch has asked Nvidia to clarify the matter, and we’ll update this article if we receive a reply.
The problem is, water use outside of the data center — primarily in electricity generation and chip manufacturing — can double or triple the total water footprint of a facility. That means Nvidia’s solution addresses about a quarter to a third of AI data centers’ total water consumption.
2026-06-24 03:53:54
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Bob :
Chevron Deference was overturned , eminent domain was altered because of it , look it up !
2026-06-25 16:00:36
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macdaddy1720 :
Love it
2026-06-24 02:45:46
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Claude Lemay43 :
2 years ain't shit for jobs
2026-06-26 21:15:02
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Clay :
Heard the data centers are moving to counties that don't have water conservation districts. At least in Texas, although not the initial ones.
2026-06-26 11:42:16
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James Teasley :
Cleco sold out last month
2026-06-25 11:39:54
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HONEY317 :
water pollution also
2026-06-24 22:21:31
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SKATE DIVA DEBRA🛼 :
Yes every state s is doing this
2026-06-25 05:05:54
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Larry Lacour0743 :
Yes it
2026-06-27 17:40:49
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Mark Allbert :
GLO
2026-06-23 22:53:18
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user35755772618217 :
Need to do some research on the Data center .Notice they started building before they came out ti the Public.Just thing about 🤔🤔🤔
2026-06-26 03:36:34
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ShiWho :
Or that it is a mile from a school, k-12 school.
2026-06-24 20:05:59
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James Taillon ❌️ :
th jobs will end when construction is over.
2026-06-23 23:14:49
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no :
what about the pollution to the water
2026-06-23 21:57:12
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old mel of pa 68 :
keep us updated
2026-06-23 23:11:36
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Jason Garrett :
so is that on a 40 hour week with that 90k please message me
2026-06-24 00:46:54
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