Meta says it will spend an extra $40 billion on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana in its quest for more compute power
Meta mega campus covers 4,000 acres and will require 10 methane-burning gas turbine plants to power the data center, which is set to use three times more electricity than New Orleans.
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