(The Center Square) — Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May accidentally disclosed Tuesday that Meta’s Richland Parish data center is expected to draw 4,500 megawatts of electricity, revealing for the first time a closely guarded figure that shows the extraordinary scale of the project’s power demand.
For perspective, 4,500 MW is about four times the peak electricity demand of the entire city of New Orleans.
May seemed to realize his error, as did the audience and the attorney questioning him. “I won’t make you say it again,” an attorney for the Union of Concerned Scientists responded.
Neither Entergy or Meta had ever disclosed the size of the load addition. Meta and Entergy have treated the data center’s projected electrical demand as confidential, arguing that details about the facility’s power needs constitute commercially sensitive information.
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