Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois Explains How the Meta AI Project in Rayville Came to Fruition

By Joe Gallinaro

Louisiana Radio Network

Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, will build a massive 10-billion-dollar artificial intelligence data center in Rayville in Richland Parish. A project expected to create 500 or more direct jobs. So how did it happen? Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says initial conversations with Meta began soon after Governor Landry took office and ten months later Louisiana won the project.

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