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What you need to know as Virginia approves legal recreational marijuana sales
6+ hour, 46+ min ago (675+ words) RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — Virginians will soon be able to legally purchase recreational marijuana, ending years of what many described as a confusing system that allowed adults to possess and grow cannabis but not legally buy it. As part of the…...
Meta expands AI data center in Louisiana, boosting investment to over $50 billion
12+ hour, 38+ min ago (551+ words) RICHLAND PARISH, La. â Meta announced it is expanding its artificial intelligence-optimized data center in Richland Parish to 5 gigawatts in compute capacity, making it the largest facility in the company's fleet. The expansion represents an investment of more than $50 billion…...
Junior Legion Baseball: Alexandria Black races ahead Alexandria Red for third place at Bernie Classic
11+ hour, 24+ min ago (516+ words) ALEXANDRIA — Before their final regular-season game of the junior Legion baseball season, both the Alexandria junior Legion programs met at the Bernie Classic on Sunday, July 13. The two teams played in the third-place game, with Alexandria Black besting Alexandria Red…...
Meta says it's expanding the Louisiana AI data center that helped fuel $50K teacher bonuses
11+ hour, 52+ min ago (405+ words) Meta is scaling up what was already slated to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has fueled "life-changing returns" for local teachers and businesses. The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in…...
Gov. Jeff Landry hails expansion of Meta’s massive data center in Louisiana
17+ hour, 10+ min ago (372+ words) Gov. Jeff Landry and other Louisiana leaders on Monday hailed an announcement that Facebook parent company Meta is more than doubling the size of its mammoth Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, saying this is a moment that “Louisiana has…...
Meta to boost Louisiana AI data center spend to over $50B (META:NASDAQ)
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (106+ words) Meta is expanding its “Hyperion” AI data center supercluster in rural Louisiana into a 5GW powerhouse costing more than $50B, positioning the Richland Parish project as one of... Meta's (META) Richland Parish data center project is set to become its largest globally,…...
Louisiana’s innovation ecosystem: 18 stories of growth
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1675+ words) Technical.ly is a free news resource thanks to financial supporters like Nexus Louisiana, a Technical.ly partner, which underwrites our Louisiana coverage. This story was not reviewed before publication. Learn more about Nexus Louisiana. Across New Orleans, Baton Rouge,…...
Extreme drought area expands in Virginia for the first time in weeks
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (365+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — Despite some rainfall, Virginia's drought continues. After a brief period of modest improvement, the extreme drought area is expanding for the first time in weeks. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor, released Thursday and based on conditions through Tuesday…...
Virginia's massive data center plan near Civil War battlefield collapses after final appeal dropped
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (331+ words) A years-long fight over one of the most ambitious data center projects in the country has come to an end in Virginia. The data center developer QTS officially ended its plans to build a section of the planned 2,100-acre data…...
Forged Energy Solutions Announces Strategic Vision for Louisiana's Energy, Industrial, and Digital Infrastructure Future
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (83+ words) LAFAYETTE, LA, UNITED STATES, July 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Forged Energy Solutions Announces Strategic Vision for Louisiana’s Energy, Industrial, and Digital Infrastructure Future LAFAYETTE, La. — July 7, 2026 — Forged Energy Solutions today announced its strategic vision to support Louisiana’s growing energy, industrial, and digital…...