Boyce has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Boyce has a scorecard row with no rating yet. Rapides Parish's own decisions are on the Rapides Parish page.
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| Facility and county | Stage | Operator | Power (MW) | Latest entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Forge 1 Boyce, Rapides Parish | Proposed | Applied Digital | 300 | Meta building Hyperion data center approximately 30 miles east of Monroe in Richland Parish thetowntalk.com (opens in a new tab) news outlet reported September 13, 2026 |
A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file. Power is the developer's figure or a permit's, each linked on the record.
| Record | Place | Stage | Operator | MW | Basis | Located | Tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Forge 1 | Boyce, Rapides | Proposed | Applied Digital | 300 | centroid | 1 | 2026-10-06 |
Tier 1: an official or company source. Tier 2: a news report resolving to the outlet's own page. Located: a site coordinate from a permit, a parcel or an address, or the county or town centroid. Verified: the last day a person read the source. A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file.
What the city has done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement one tap away, newest first, with its source. No dated decision is on the record yet.
| Body | Level | Rating | In force until | Latest act | Acts | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boyce | city | not rated | No dated act on this row yet. | 2026-09-13 |
A rating rests only on a binding act in force; "not rated" means no person has set one. A blank cell means the record holds nothing for it.
Now reportedDelta Forge 1
Applied Digital building 3.6 billion dollar Data Forge 1 data center near Boyce
Gary Musgrove, a Save My Louisiana representative, stated that community concerns about data centers remain unanswered by politicians and local officials.
Humans First is conducting a cross country bus tour with 34 stops across the nation demanding stronger guardrails on data center development.
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Activist group Humans First organized a stop of its AI Data Center Revolt tour in Boyce, Louisiana on September 12, 2026 with local residents and activist groups in attendance.
Provenance: Paraphrased; said in the source itself.
Primary source: KALB | News Channel 5 (opens in a new tab).
Humans First, conservative group, touring nation to advocate for local control over AI data center construction
Provenance: Paraphrased; said in the source itself.
Primary source: thetowntalk.com (opens in a new tab).
Distances run between the centers the Census Bureau gives each place. Every Louisiana parish.
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Without a figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per day | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per year | 0 | 1 | ||
| Permanent jobs | 0 | 1 | ||
| Tax each year | 0 | 1 |
A blank total means no record disclosed the figure; the count without one says how many.
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No stated use | 1 |
A blank cell means no record with that use disclosed the figure.
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Boyce is for.
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Boyce is cooled.
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Boyce, Rapides Parish, Louisiana", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/la/rapides-parish/boyce. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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