State regulators vote Wednesday on a controversial plan to power Meta’s largest artificial intelligence data center yet, which will be built in rural northeast Louisiana, potentially clearing the way for construction of three gas-fired electricity plants.

The state's Public Service Commission will vote on the plan being proposed by Entergy at a meeting in the city of Plaquemine. Top Louisiana officials, including Gov. Jeff Landry, have welcomed the tech giant’s $10 billion project in Richland Parish as an economic development gamechanger in a long-struggling part of the state. But the plans have also drawn sharp criticism over the data center's huge energy needs.

The complex will sit on former agricultural land the size of around 70 football fields and require roughly three times the a

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