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Jeff Landry signs executive order on protecting ratepayers, but defends h data centers
State Politics

Jeff Landry signs executive order on protecting ratepayers, but defends h data centers

  • BY ANDREA GALLO AND SAM KARLIN | Staff writers
  • Jun 25, 2026

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order Thursday while flanked by h utility company executives saying that data center projects must have their benefits to citizens “evaluated and balanced” against their use of electric generation, water and land.

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Gov. Jeff Landry plans executive order amid concerns over Entergy proposal for power plant
News

Gov. Jeff Landry plans executive order amid concerns over Entergy proposal for power plant

  • BY SAM KARLIN | Staff writer
  • Updated Jun 24, 2026

Gov. Jeff Landry is planning to issue an executive order Thursday on data centers emerging in the state and their impact on consumer electric bills, amid new concerns about an Entergy proposal to spend $1.8 billion buying a new power plant.

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Entergy wants to charge customers $8 a month to buy a gas plant. Should Meta pay instead?
News

Entergy wants to charge customers $8 a month to buy a gas plant. Should Meta pay instead?

  • BY SAM KARLIN | Staff writer
  • Jun 18, 2026

Entergy Louisian’s plans to buy a gas-fired power plant for $1.8 billion are drawing concerns from a consultant for the state’s Public Service Commission, who recently warned in a report that the plant is unreliable and needed mostly because of Meta’s massive north h data center.

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Texas company to build data center near Alexandria that will employ 200
Business

Texas company to build data center near Alexandria that will employ 200

  • by Adam Daigle | Acadiana business editor
  • May 26, 2026

Referring to it as a “paradigm shift” for the central h economy, state and local officials on Tuesday announced a $3.6 billion data ce…

West Feliciana residents could see rebates if data center tax bill passes
St. Francisville

West Feliciana residents could see rebates if data center tax bill passes

  • BY JAMES MINTON | Contributing writer
  • Apr 16, 2026

West Feliciana Parish’s cash windfall from the expected operation of a large data center could mean tax rebates to parish property owners if a…

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Why tech giants could reap massive tax breaks in h as data centers break ground
News

Why tech giants could reap massive tax breaks in h as data centers break ground

  • BY SAM KARLIN | Staff writer
  • Mar 8, 2026

When Meta officials came to Louisiana in 2024 to negotiate a potential data center project, they told state officials that they would need significant tax breaks in order to close the deal.

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Opinion

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  • Rick Olivier
  • Updated Apr 2, 2024

Robert Habans

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How 'redlining' shaped New Orleans neighborhoods — is it too late to be fixed?
News

How 'redlining' shaped New Orleans neighborhoods — is it too late to be fixed?

  • BY ALEX WOODWARD
  • Jan 21, 2019

The impacts of racist housing policies that 'redlined' New Orleans neighborhoods still resonate decades later.

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Black moms, cash bail and 'criminalized poverty': Talking bail fund work with Women With a Vision_lowres

  • PHOTO BY VLADIMIR SOLOMYANI / UNSPLASH
  • May 15, 2018
Black moms, cash bail and 'criminalized poverty': Talking bail fund work with Women With a Vision
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Black moms, cash bail and 'criminalized poverty': Talking bail fund work with Women With a Vision

  • 1272900 Kat Stromquist
  • May 15, 2018

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