Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, February 14th.

Today on Forbes, the trillion-dollar AI Data Center tsunami, coming to a field near you.

Last month on his Facebook blog, Mark Zuckerberg wrote, quote,

This will be a defining year for AI.

He was hyping his plan to invest $65 billion in 2025, most of it in support of growing META's AI capabilities and building upon its Lama 4 model.

The locus of these efforts appears to be on 2,250 acres of flat farmland in northeast Louisiana, where META has begun

work on a $10 billion data center project. This grandest of META's 20 worldwide data centers

will be called Sucre, or suite, and cover 4 million square feet of floor space on 2,250 acres.

To power racks lined with thousands of Nvidia H-100 GPUs,

Sucre will require 2.23 gigawatts of 24-7 electricity,

enough to power more than 2 million homes,

which utility company, Entergy, will provide via twin high-efficiency

natural gas turbines at a capital cost of $3.2 billion.

Meta's plans also call for $250 million in related infrastructure spending, including

roads and water systems.

Construction jobs will peak at 5,000. So is this really

going to get built? And is it even a good idea, given recent revelations from Deepseek that building

advanced machine intelligence might be cheaper and less energy intensive than initially believed?

Zach Krause, an analyst at Energy Consultancy East Daily Analytics, tracks data center announcements

and works on handicapping both their likelihood of getting built and how developers expect

to provide for their electricity demand.

Kraus says he has been encouraging his institutional investor clients, many natural gas and power

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