Meta Hyperion Building 8 is a data center operated by Meta in Richland Parish, LA, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 555.0 MW and is currently planned. It sits in the Richland Parish data-center market on the MISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 18.5-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Richland Parish — the market this facility sits in.
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Richland Parish hosts a concentrated hyperscaler footprint dominated by Meta, with 22 tracked facilities totaling 19,500 MW of deployed capacity. Meta operates 22 facilities across the parish 13 under Meta corporate, 9 under Meta Platforms, establishing near-total market control. The recent M&A transaction—Meta acquiring an undisclosed property for $40 million—signals continued consolidation rather than competitive diversification. This degree of single-operator concentration is unusual even for major data center hubs and creates structural dependency on Meta's capex cycles and operational decisions. The DCPI verdict of AVOID stems from two critical constraints: excess-power scoring of 39/100 and physical constraint scoring of 37/100. The excess-power metric indicates limited near-term buildable capacity relative to interconnection availability, meaning new entrants or expansion-focused…
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