(The Center Square) — Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May accidentally disclosed Tuesday that Meta’s Richland Parish data center is expected to draw 4,500 megawatts of electricity, revealing for the first time a closely guarded figure that shows the extraordinary scale of the project’s power demand.
For perspective, 4,500 MW is about four times the peak electricity demand of the entire city of New Orleans.
May realized immediately what he had done. “I won’t make you say it again,” an attorney for the Union of Concerned Scientists responded…