BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana Illuminator ) – Fast-tracking a vote that was originally expected to happen two months from now, state utility regulators plan to decide Wednesday whether to approve a controversial power plant Entergy wants to build specifically for tech company Meta to run a giant data center planned for Northeast Louisiana.

A utility ratepayer advocacy group that opposes the project says this attempt to rush the Louisiana Public Service Commission’s approval has been shrouded in secrecy and “back door deals.”

The commission never actually scheduled the vote but did set an October deadline for the matter to be settled, leaving many to expect the vote would take place that same month. But stakeholders and some parties previously opposed to the project told regulato

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