Meta Hyperion Building 2 is a data center operated by Meta Platforms in Richland Parish, LA, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 555.0 MW and is currently under construction. 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.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Richland Parish — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Richland Parish hosts 22 tracked facilities totaling 19,500 MW of capacity, dominated almost entirely by Meta's dual operating entities. Meta operates 13 MW directly while Meta Platforms controls an additional 9 MW, consolidating roughly 100% of the tracked operator base in this parish. This extreme concentration around a single buyer creates a captive market dynamic with limited competitive tension. The infrastructure base exists primarily to serve Meta's expansion roadmap rather than a diversified tenant ecosystem. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is justified by two material constraints. The excess-power score of 44/100 signals tight supply margins—the region cannot reliably absorb incremental load growth without major grid upgrades. More critically, the constraint score of 38/100 represents severe infrastructure friction; this is a lower constraint rating than peer markets like New York…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Comparable facilities in Richland Parish tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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