Meta’s latest 1,400-acre land deal in Louisiana signals plans for a vast, multiphase AI campus unlike anything the U.S. has seen.

Donna Collins lives about 20 miles from where Meta’s biggest data center is being built, in a house her family has lived in for five generations. Construction has thrown the small agricultural community in North Louisiana into the spotlight as a high-profile example of how the infrastructure behind generative AI could impact nearby residents.

Meta ( META) on Wednesday said it is breaking ground on its latest data center as part of its massive AI infrastructure build-out. The more than $10 billion data center will be located in Lebanon, Ind., and have a capacity of upwards of 1 gigawatt. That's enough energy to power several hundred thousand homes.

By Katie Paul Feb 11 (Reuters) - Meta said on Wednesday it was breaking ground on a $10 billion data center in Indiana, as it races to secure the massive amounts of computing power needed to support its artificial intelligence ambitions.

As Meta ramps up spending on AI infrastructure, the tech giant has unveiled its newest gigawatt-scale data center campus in Indiana.