Meta bets on gas for AI in Louisiana

Meta is investing in the construction of seven new natural gas power plants to power its future AI data center in Louisiana. The company has partnered with Entergy to secure a supply of 7 gigawatts of power.

This investment underscores the growing demand for energy required by artificial intelligence workloads, particularly for training and inference of large language models (LLMs). Modern data centers, especially those dedicated to AI, require a significant amount of energy to power high-performance GPUs and other hardware components.

The choice of natural gas power plants raises questions about environmental impact, but also highlights the need for reliable and scalable energy solutions to support the continued growth of AI. For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs to consider, and AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these aspects.