Meta, Facebook's parent company, is planning to spend 10 billion U.S. dollars to build its largest artificial intelligence (AI) data center in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana, the company said Wednesday.

Meta anticipates its Louisiana data center, covering 4 million square feet (370,000 square meters) in the Richland parish, a rural part of northeast Louisiana, will create 500 operational jobs and 5,000 temporary construction jobs, said Kevin Janda, the company's director of data center strategy.

Meta plans to invest 200 million dollars into road and water infrastructure improvements for the parish to offset its water usage, according to a report of The Associated Press.

The facility is expected to be completed in 2030, said the report.

The U.S. Commerce Department found that there aren't enough data centers in the country to meet rising AI-fueled demand, which is projected to grow by nine percent each year through 2030, citing industry reports.

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