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Meta’s $10B AI Data Center in Louisiana Fuels Jobs and Emissions Debate
WebProNews
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August 26, 2025
In the quiet expanse of northeastern Louisiana, where farmland once dominated the horizon, Meta Platforms Inc. is transforming a 2,000-acre site into what could become one of the world’s largest hubs for artificial intelligence computing. The...
Mississippi Homeowner Receives Grant for Storm-Resistant Roof from FHLB Dallas and RiverHills Bank
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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VICKSBURG, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 26, 2025-- Edith Franklin, a resident of a 106-year-old home, now has a new FORTIFIED-designated roof to protect her and her husband from severe weather. The roof, installed using a $14,959 grant from the...
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana loses $720M in disaster preparedness funding
WRKF - Louisiana
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August 26, 2025
Research shows climate change intensified Hurricane Katrina, and 20 years later, scientists say hurricanes are growing even stronger due to climate change. Five years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) started the Building...
Meta's Louisiana data center to cost $50B, Trump says
Yahoo Finance
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to spend $50 billion on its massive data center in rural Louisiana. Most Read from Bloomberg Trump, speaking Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting, said he was in awe of...
Coalition urges tech companies to stop the spread of deepfake pornography
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 26, 2025
Letter cites report that 98% of fake online videos are deepfake non-consensual intimate imagery Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark today led a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general in calling on major...
Step into the spotlight: Nutcracker auditions are here, sponsored by Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre
225 Magazine
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August 26, 2025
This fall, young dancers have the chance to step into one of Baton Rouge’s most magical traditions! Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre is holding community auditions for The Nutcracker – A Tale from the Bayou on Sunday, September 14, at The Dancers’...
Inside The FAFSA Fraud Economy: Stolen Identities, Social Media & Lost Millions
Forbes
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Louisiana Tech and partners break ground on $80 million microchip facility in Ruston
KEDM - Louisiana
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August 26, 2025
Ruston, LA – A major computer chip maker will produce computer chips in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech University, Radiance Technologies, Louisiana Economic Development (LED), and the Louisiana Tech University Foundation unveiled plans for a...
Here’s how residents have been impacted by latest Louisiana tax changes, new study reveals
The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate - Louisiana
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They hired him again this summer to look at the impact to taxpayers of changes that were eventually approved. Steve Procopio, CEO of PAR, said the results show that everyone is going to pay more on sales taxes because some deductions were removed...
Baton Rouge's Asian Seafood House reopens as buffet-only with dim sum, lobster and sushi
The Advocate - Louisiana
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The Asian Seafood House has reopened as a buffet-only restaurant after being temporarily closed for a month and a half. Known for its authentic Asian cuisine and dim sum menu, Asian Seafood House, 11294 Florida Blvd., reopened Aug. 13 after a...
See the group of young business leaders who made Shreveport's 40 Under Forty list
The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate - Louisiana
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The Young Professionals Initiative has released the names of the 40 locals under the age of 40 who they believe are on the track as leaders for the future. “This year’s class represents not only professional achievement, but also a deep commitment...
‘You had to fend for yourself’: Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as Trump guts disaster aid
The Guardian
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August 26, 2025
Darren McKinney, the field operations director of lowernine.org, takes a break during a shift repairing a neighbor’s home in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward on 20 August 2025. Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When...
20 years after Katrina, Louisiana loses federal funding for disaster preparedness program
KRVS - Louisiana
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August 26, 2025
Research shows climate change intensified Hurricane Katrina, and 20 years later, scientists say hurricanes are growing even stronger due to climate change. Five years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) started the Building...
Plans for this giant South Louisiana solar farm are dropped. It faced stiff local opposition
The Advocate - Louisiana
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August 26, 2025
NextEra Energy has dropped plans to build a 2,000-acre solar farm near White Castle, a project that drew strong local opposition. In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, the Iberville Parish government said the Florida-based company had withdrawn its...
Opinion | Plantation Tourism, Memory and the Uneasy Economics of Heritage in the American South
Mississippi Free Press
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August 26, 2025
The American South—and the nation more broadly—continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible. This tension came into sharp relief in May 2025, when the largest...
Buffalo Bills schedule 2025: Everything you need to know to watch Josh Allen and Company
The New York Times
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August 26, 2025
Reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills look to get over the hump and reach the franchise’s first Super Bowl since the 1993 season. By hump, that means Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Last season ended painfully for the Bills...
After 23 years in the business, this Baton Rouge designer knows her curtains, what's trending
The Advocate - Louisiana
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Kim Pitre used to design and install wallpaper. When that business was slowly going out of style in the 1990s, she moved to a more specialized craft: textiles and curtains. Not only are curtains important in design spaces to pull a room together...
Arch Manning and the NFL Draft: Why no one's banking (or tanking) on Texas QB going pro in 2026
The New York Times
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August 26, 2025
Before Arch Manning even takes his first snap as the Texas Longhorns’ starting quarterback this season, fans, draftniks and NFL scouts alike are wondering whether he’ll declare for the 2026 NFL Draft. It’s another boxcar on the Manning hype train...
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans still lags behind
KAWC Colorado River Public Media - Arizona
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August 26, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — Almost 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit the city, a drive through New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward takes you past boarded homes, empty, overgrown lots and block after block where there are few people or houses. In 2005, 15,000...
Samsung, Hyundai Boost US Investments Amid Trade Tensions
WebProNews
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August 26, 2025
South Korean conglomerates Samsung and Hyundai are ramping up their commitments to the U.S. economy with substantial new investments, signaling a strategic pivot amid global trade tensions and a push for domestic manufacturing. According to a...