A rural Louisiana campus priced at over $50 billion is scaling to 5 gigawatts of AI compute, and the 10 dedicated gas plants being built to power it reveal how a supercluster actually differs from any data center you already know

Flat soybean fields stretch for miles in Richland Parish, a rural corner of northeastern Louisiana most Americans have never heard of. Then the cranes appear. Hundreds of them, above steel frames the size of city blocks. Inside those frames, rows of graphics processors will run hotter and draw more power than entire city grids. The ... Read more