Meta is building its biggest data center ever, and it’s putting it in one of the least expected places: Richland Parish, Louisiana, a rural community where cotton fields outnumber tech campuses by a considerable margin.
The project, dubbed Hyperion, will span 4 million square feet and focus on AI training workloads. Its initial compute capacity is set to exceed 2 gigawatts, with plans to scale up to 5 gigawatts in later phases. The total investment is projected between $10 billion and $27 billion.
What Hyperion actually looks like
Announced in December 2024, the Hyperion campus represents Meta’s most aggressive single-site infrastructure bet to date. The facility is being financed partly through a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital, announced in October 2025, giving Meta access to outside capital to share the financial load.
Meta expects to generate more than 500 direct jobs and over 1,000 indirect positions tied to the facility’s construction and operation.
