Supercomputers/Systems/Meta Hyperion
USA · under construction · ai training
Meta Hyperion
Deep dive: Meta Hyperion and Prometheus: tents and gas
Operated by Meta Platforms at Meta Richland Parish AI Campus (Hyperion) .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
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| Integrator | - Joint venture between Meta and funds managed by Blue Owl Capital to develop the Hyperion data center campus; no accelerator model, interconnect or cooling vendor disclosed while under construction | Meta Platforms | - | Reported | investor.atmeta.comfinance.yahoo.com |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
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| Stated investment | 50 USD bn | 2026-07 | Operator stated | Meta: more than $50 bn for the Richland Parish campus on expansion to 5 GW; press says prior figure was $27 bn; campus total, not first phase | datacenters.atmeta.comfinance.yahoo.com |
| Stated investment | 27 USD bn | 2025-10 | Operator stated | Meta: about $27 bn development cost in the Blue Owl JV (80 percent Blue Owl, 20 percent Meta); earlier figure, later raised above $50 bn | investor.atmeta.com |
| Facility power | 2,260 MW | 2025-08 | Regulatory filing | Entergy: three combined-cycle gas units totalling 2,260 MW approved by Louisiana PSC to serve Hyperion; generation capacity, not campus load | entergy.com |
| IT power | 5,000 MW | 2026-07 | Design target | Louisiana Economic Development: 5 GW of IT capacity for Richland Parish campus; Meta page says 5 GW of compute capacity. Planned, with 2 GW first milestone | opportunitylouisiana.govdatacenters.atmeta.com |
How it is powered
| Source | Provider | MW | Status | As of | Basis | Note | Source link |
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| Utility gas plant | Entergy Louisiana | 1,500 | permitted | 2025-12 | Regulatory filing | Franklin Farms: two CCCT units, about 1,500 MW, online late 2028 (LPSC approved 20 Aug 2025). A third CCCT at Waterford is due end 2029; its MW is not stated. | entergy.comentergy.com |
| Utility gas plant | Entergy Louisiana | 5,200 | planned | 2026-04 | Operator stated | Seven more gas plants, over 5.2 GW, paid by Meta under a 15-year contract. LPSC voted 4-1 on 15 Apr 2026 on the fast-track request (KSLA); final vote Dec 2026. | finance.yahoo.comenr.com |
| Wind and solar | Entergy Louisiana | 1,500 | permitted | 2025-08 | Regulatory filing | LPSC authorised Entergy Louisiana to procure up to 1,500 MW of solar (20 Aug 2025). Meta later said it will help fund up to 2,500 MW of new renewables. | entergy.comksla.com |
| Nuclear | Entergy Louisiana | - | planned | 2026-04 | Operator stated | Entergy plan includes nuclear up-rates at existing sites and a Meta nuclear MOU (ENR). No MW or PPA terms; cost-of-service arrangement, not a PPA. | ksla.comenr.com |
How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.
Compute deals
- 2025-10: Meta Platforms and Blue Owl Capital (joint venture , headline $12.3bn). sec.gov
All compute deals. Headline values are as announced, not additive.
The read
Meta's second named titan cluster, in Richland Parish, Louisiana, broke ground in December 2024 and was announced at up to 5 GW by Zuckerberg in July 2025. Meta's own investor release describes a joint venture with funds managed by Blue Owl Capital (80 percent) and Meta (20 percent) covering about $27 billion of development cost for the buildings and long lived power, cooling and connectivity infrastructure, with construction "well underway" as of that release. Independent reporting from July 2026 gives an expanded target of 5 GW of compute capacity and more than $50 billion of investment, up from the original 2 GW and $27 billion plan, with a 2 GW milestone targeted by 2030 and no date yet for the full 5 GW buildout. No GPU count, accelerator model or measured power draw has been disclosed by Meta, so those fields are blank and the system is recorded as under_construction rather than operational.
Timeline
- 2024-12 Announced source
Site & facility
Meta Richland Parish AI Campus (Hyperion)
- Location
- Richland Parish, LA, USA
Change history
- 2026-10-04 AI datacenter metrics: Meta Hyperion
- 2026-09-24 Added Meta Hyperion (Richland Parish, Louisiana)
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
None of the cited sources could be read from our network: the hosts returned bot challenges or did not respond. This check says nothing about the citations either way. See how this check works.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
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| finance.yahoo.com | could not be fetched | - |
| investor.atmeta.com | could not be fetched | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Related news
- Louisiana regulators fast-track review of seven more gas plants for Meta's Hyperion campus · Union of Concerned ScientistsTen gas fired units totaling roughly 7.5 gigawatts, up from three approved in August 2025, would power a single Meta data center at a scale that a critic notes exceeds six times New Orleans' peak demand. It is a sharp illustration of the recurring finding elsewhere in this dataset that grid power, not chip supply, has become the binding constraint on gigawatt class AI campuses like Hyperion.