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Timeline / 2025

August 2025

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September 2025 · July 2025

3 milestones in August 2025

3 approvals

Newest: , approval, Louisiana.

Place
Developer

Wednesday, August 20 1

  1. Approval

    Louisiana

    On August 20, 2025, the Louisiana PSC voted to approve Entergy's settlement to build generation and transmission infrastructure for Meta's $50 billion data center in Richland Parish

    wwno.org, local outlet

August 2025, no day given 2

  1. Approval

    Hyperscale Data Dowagiac AI Data Center, Dowagiac, Michigan

    De Soto City Council approved Development Agreement with Mount Sunflower, LLC in August 2025

    cjonline.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Aug 10, 2026)

  2. Approval

    Vantage Port Washington Data Center, Port Washington, Wisconsin

    The Port Washington Common Council approved the development agreement for the project in August

    wpr.org, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Oct 24, 2025)

Also on the record for August 2025

7 acts of another kind and 3 lines of background, plans and statements

Not on this page, by the rule at the top: 7 acts of another kind and 3 lines of background, plans and statements. Each sits on its home record, a project page, a scorecard row on its state, county or city page, a bill page or a laws page, and on each state's own timeline, where every act of the month is listed with the lines under it. The Daily Record lists every row by the day it entered the record.