Vermilion Parish has 2 data centers on the record: 2 proposed. No parish or city rule about data centers is on the record for Vermilion Parish yet.
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| Facility and county | Stage | Operator | Power (MW) | Latest entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Nuclear / Project Cayman Data Center Campus Vermilion Parish | Proposed | ONE Nuclear Energy | 2,880 | |
| SpaceX Starbase Louisiana / orbital data center Vermilion Parish | Proposed | SpaceX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Nuclear / Project Cayman Data Center Campus | Vermilion | Proposed | ONE Nuclear Energy | 2,880 | centroid | 3 | 2026-09-17 | |
| SpaceX Starbase Louisiana / orbital data center | Vermilion | Proposed | SpaceX | centroid | 4 | 2026-09-17 |
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.
Kate Cotten, Republican challenger in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District, said she opposes shifting the cost of new power infrastructure onto ratepayers if data centers are the reason for the higher rates.
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Kate Cotten said she does not have enough information to take a firm position on SpaceX incentives but is skeptical of promised benefits and concerned about environmental costs.
Provenance: Paraphrased; said in the source itself.
Primary source: KPLC 7 News (opens in a new tab).
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| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Without a figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 0 | 2 | ||
| Water, stated per day | 0 | 2 | ||
| Water, stated per year | 0 | 2 | ||
| Permanent jobs | 0 | 2 | ||
| Tax each year | 0 | 2 |
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 | 2 |
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 2 tracked facilities in Vermilion Parish are for.
No source on file states how any of the 2 tracked facilities in Vermilion Parish are cooled.
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/la/vermilion-parish. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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