Richland Parish, LA: the Meta Hyperion data center

Recruited as 'Project Sucre'; the PSC voted 3-1 on 8/13/2026 to let Meta withhold job methodology, electricity-demand data and power-deal terms as trade secrets. The governor's personally signed NDA thread carries the corpus's highest consensus at 0.99. Statewide standing is legitimate here. This is not a locality-discounted concern.

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An ALJ subpoenaed Meta's job-creation methodology on 7/10/2026; the full Commission killed the subpoena 3-1 on 8/12/2026, meaning the headline figures are developer-claimed and publicly unauditable. Permanent headcount appears as 1,000 (LED), 500 (Meta), and 300 (Illuminator) across sources. Second-largest theme in the corpus.

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LPSC approved the original 3-plant package 4-1 on 8/20/2025 and voted 4-1 on 4/16/2026 to fast-track a 7-plant expansion under an expedited process bypassing competitive bidding. $550M transmission line billed to all Entergy customers; ~$3.4B stranded-cost exposure if Meta exits. Present in all 14 Reddit threads but never its own thread, an assumed background cost rather than a mobilizing event.

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Permitted 23M gal/day against Meta's own predicted 1.5M; LSU modeling shows drawdown potentially exceeding 65 feet; Louisiana has no statutory data-center water reporting and Meta's disclosure is voluntary for five years. Digital intensity is high but rests substantially on out-of-market evidence: the two largest threads are Georgia and Virginia well-water footage framed as 'get ready LA'. The only Richland Parish resident to speak says the brown water predates Meta.

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PROVISIONAL. Beignet Investor LLC was incorporated on 8/20/2025. The same day the LPSC approved the generation package, and intervenors allege the structure was not disclosed to the Commission during that proceeding. Investment figures moved $10B to $27B to $50B in under two years without a public reconciliation.

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600% crash spike reported on haul routes; DOTD publicly acknowledged partial-only remediation. The category with the highest ratio of verifiable local physical effect to digital volume: likely under-represented online relative to lived impact.

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Land handled through a Northwest Louisiana Finance Authority lease structure rather than a parish land-use vote. There is no local veto point to contest, which is why process grievance displaces almost entirely onto secrecy.

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The register in which every other concern gets argued rather than a discrete concern of its own: socialized risk, 'Louisiana as resource colony', billionaire welfare. No event spike; it spikes derivatively.

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Sierra Club testimony at the 11/19/2025 LDEQ hearing cited a 5-million-ton CO2 increase; an 8/4/2026 allegation that the minor-source permit excludes 31 emergency generators. No resident reports a health effect: every digital instance is anticipatory.

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Runs inverted from the usual pattern: farmland from $6,500 to $30,000-73,000/acre and median home sale up 172%, with the grievance being displacement and rent inflation rather than devaluation. Ten of fourteen digital items are about locals being priced out.

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Holly Ridge Elementary closed its playground over dump-truck dust and traffic. Cuts the other way: a single $22.4M tax payment sent $11.8M to the school board, funding teacher bonuses. Both facts belong on the page.

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PROVISIONAL. Richland Parish poverty rate 26.4%; Sierra Club argues explicit targeting of financially struggling counties. Contested on the facts within the corpus itself: locally-informed commenters correct the claim that the parish is historically Black. The developed formal EJ argument in Louisiana sits in New Orleans, not here.

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Construction-phase only and almost entirely anticipatory. Scored low deliberately: the facility is not operating, so operational noise has no constituency yet. A category to watch, not one to score up.

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Real in discussion, near-absent from the public record. Dominant strand is AI-as-job-destroyer, which is why it reads as adjacent to the Jobs category rather than as technology opposition.

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