Because Louisiana is very rich with natural gas on cheap land, has low regulation, and governor after governor that is down for being a testing ground for new wacky republican policies.

They also placed it near Grand Gulf, and there is a lot of water in that area.

People still want their software to work at night. And last I checked, Louisiana had access to lots of water.

Wait, are you making a “with solar electricity will go away at night” argument?

Because it does? You either have to have a dispatchable energy source to turn on at night and on cloudy days (usually fossil fuels), or storage for 12+ hours. Actually more than 12 hours in case there's extended periods of cloud cover.

Zuck has aligned himself quickly (like the spineless ass kisser he is) , ideologically and in action, to the Republican party. Of course Meta is gonna use fossil fuels and not woke solar.

While they are at it, I am pretty sure they will enable a couple of extra genocides like they did in Myanmar with the extra capacities from that data center.