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The Hyperion supercluster in Richland Parish is nearly double its prior $27 billion price tag and more than double its original 2-gigawatt capacity

Analysts had no idea how big this would be.

> $50 billion How much Meta Platforms expects its massive data center in Northeast Louisiana to cost—nearly double the original $27 billion estimate—after supersizing the project to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity.

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The company scaled up the size of its massive data-center project in Northeast Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and said it would now cost more than $50 billion.

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Meta said on Monday its data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will expand to 5 gigawatts ‌of compute capacity, with investment in the project increasing to ‌more than $50 billion. The planned data center, known as Hyperion, was earlier projected to deliver ​more than 2 gigawatts of compute capacity to support training of large language models, the technology behind tools such as ChatGPT. • U.S. environmental law group Earthjustice's request to investigate the financing of Meta's Louisiana data center project was ⁠denied earlier this year.

July 13 (Reuters) - Meta said on Monday its data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana will expand to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, in a bid to support the social media company's AI ambitions.

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