Meta Data Center Town Hall Register

Date and Time:
Mon, Nov 17, 2025; 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM  (Central)

Organized By: Delta Chapter

Location: 1924 S Julia St, Rayville, LA 71269, USA

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We are reaching out as part of a coalition of community, worker, and environmental groups to invite you to a town hall meeting at 6:PM on Monday, November 17th at the Johnny's Pizza House (1924 Julia St. Rayville, LA) to discuss the proposed Meta data center in Holly Ridge. There will be a LDEQ-sponsored meeting in Rayville on Tuesday to look at air permits for the Entergy Louisiana, LLC - Franklin Farms Power Station that is planned for the area. Its construction is part of a plan to build out three gas-powered power stations to supply the heavy electricity demand of the data center.

Our coalition has been monitoring statements and press releases about the new facility since the announcement of the facility last year. We have met with citizens from other states where similar (but smaller) data centers have already been built. Meta’s 2.5-million-sq.-foot data center outside of Atlanta uses about 10% of the county’s total water use a day (500,000 gallons) as reported by The New York Times. The Richland parish facility is touted to be “as big as 70 football fields” – 4 million-sq.-foot.

Knowing what we know – and don’t know – we would like to bring members of the community, interested groups, and elected officials together to discuss it further before the state-sponsored air permits meeting.

As a resident of the area, we want to work with you to get answers to your questions about how the huge data center will affect local residents in relation to everything: jobs, water supplies, air quality, traffic and electricity rates for the public.

Meta, under Mark Zuckerberg's leadership, has made significant commitments to green energy and sustainability - EXCEPT that is, here in Louisiana. Meta and Louisiana officials and utilities have proposed gas-powered and even nuclear reactors as the energy sources for Zuckerberg’s grand plan. Not much on solar or wind, although just upriver in Mississippi's Tunica County, the first utility-scale wind farm, Delta Wind, is providing power to data centers as part of a larger $10 billion investment by Amazon. We want that kind of commitment from Zuckerberg in Louisiana.

We ask that you RSVP at your earliest convenience. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any queries.

Yours sincerely,

Margie Vicknair-Pray
Conservation Coordinator

Cancellation Policy: Activity is held rain or shine, but may be altered due to inclement weather