Meta will spend more than $40 billion on an expansion of its Hyperion data center in Louisiana, bringing total investment in the Richland Parish facility to more than $50 billion, according to the company's announcement Monday.
The expanded facility will reach 5 gigawatts of compute capacity across two phases, with both expected operational by 2036. Meta said the data center is designed to support AI model training and related workloads.
The Hyperion project is among the largest data center commitments in the U.S. by a single company. Meta has increased capital expenditure guidance repeatedly over the past year as it accelerates AI infrastructure development. In 2024, the company raised full-year capex guidance to between $37 billion and $40 billion, then raised it again to $39 billion to $41 billion, citing demand for AI computing.
Louisiana's investment in the project includes tax incentives and infrastructure support. The state has positioned itself as a hub for data center development, with lower electricity costs and proximity to the Mississippi River, which supplies cooling water for large facilities.
AI model training requires sustained, high-capacity compute power. Major cloud providers and AI companies have raced to secure data center capacity and power infrastructure as training demands grow. The Hyperion expansion adds to Meta's broader capex agenda, which the company has said could reach $60 billion to $65 billion in 2025 alone.
Both phases of Hyperion are expected operational by 2036, according to the announcement.
