The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 4-1 to approve Entergy’s controversial plan to power Meta’s largest data center in Richland Parish. Proponents of the project said it will bring economic development to one of Louisiana’s poorest regions.

Meta announced today that its Kansas City Data Center is now serving traffic. That means that this data center is now part of the company's global infrastructure that brings its technologies and services to life,

Fast-tracking a vote that was originally expected to happen two months from now, state utility regulators plan to decide Wednesday whether to approve a controversial power plant Entergy wants to build specifically for tech company Meta to run a giant data center planned for Northeast Louisiana.