Meta raises its Hyperion campus in Louisiana to 5 GW and more than USD 50 billion

2026-07-13 · Publisher : Meta · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

Meta announces that its Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will reach 5 GW for more than USD 50 billion, up from 2 GW and USD 27 billion announced in October 2025.

### Background On 13 July 2026, Meta states in a blog post that its **Hyperion** campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will be a **5 GW** facility costing more than **USD 50 billion**. In October 2025, Meta and Blue Owl Capital had formed a joint venture to build and manage it, with a figure of USD 27 billion for a site initially planned at 2 GW. Meta says it pays the full costs of energy, water and related infrastructure so that consumers do not. No financial partner is announced for the expansion. ### Key facts - Capacity: 5 GW, up from 2 GW originally planned. - Cost: more than USD 50 billion, up from USD 27 billion announced in October 2025, at the joint venture with Blue Owl Capital. - Construction: works began in December 2024; more than USD 1.6 billion of contracts awarded to local businesses. - Local infrastructure: more than USD 1 billion of investment announced (roads, water, wastewater). - Public framework: a 20-year sales tax exemption for data centres built before 2029, signed in Louisiana in late 2024. ### Why it matters A single site doubling in size in under a year illustrates the runaway growth of AI campuses. This campus first serves Meta's own AI needs; it is not presented as cloud capacity sold to third parties. The stake for the ecosystem is the effect on the power grid and on prices for other consumers, a point on which Meta makes commitments. ### Takeaway Hyperion goes from 2 GW to 5 GW and from USD 27 billion to more than USD 50 billion in under a year.

Tags : Datacenter, Énergie, Hyperscaler, États-Unis, IA