The World’s Largest AI Data Center
Meta wants to build data centers that supply its AI projects with massive amounts of electricity. Because of these centers and air conditioning growth, the electricity supply in the US will soon be exhausted. Meta has moved into remote, rural areas that might have the level of electricity supply they need.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the search led them to Richland Parish, Louisiana, in the northern part of the state. It is well over 100 miles from Shreveport and Jackson, Mississippi. The paper writes that the size of 70 football fields makes it the largest data center ever built.
The project will also include three mammoth natural gas power plants. According to the US Energy Information Administration, Louisiana has the third-largest natural gas reserves, behind only Pennsylvania and Texas. Shale natural gas fields have recently been discovered in the region. The EIA reports, “These new formations included the Haynesville in eastern Texas and north Louisiana, the Woodford in Oklahoma, the Eagle Ford in southern Texas, and the Marcellus and Utica shales in northern Appalachia.”
Musk’s Work Near Memphis
Louisiana is not the only state with huge AI installations. Elon Musk has put one in Tennessee. It takes up 522 acres. It contains a 100,000-chip supercomputer.
The search for places with enough energy for AI server installations has become extremely aggressive. They could end up in any area where AI companies can add energy or take a part of the electricity already in place. This could set up competition between existing residential and legacy commercial customers, which, in turn, will make it a political battle that may have to be settled in the courts.
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