Скачать или смотреть Meta's $10B Louisiana data center brings mixed emotions for locals

(25 Sep 2025)
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Holly Ridge, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
1. Excavators dig at Meta data center site
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"Well, Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center up there. It's supposed to be the biggest one in the world."
3. Buddy McCartney, who lives near the Meta data center, stands on his front porch
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"The public and the people living here didn't know what was going on till it hit."
5. Trucks pass by Buddy McCartney's home
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"It's terrible."
7. Front door reflects truck driving past
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"And now, like I said, it's just constant, nonstop traffic."

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Delhi, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
9. Close up on tires driving past
10. Cars drive through Delhi, Louisiana

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Holly Ridge, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"It's impacted our whole community."

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Delhi, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
12. Delhi municipal building sign
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Jesse Washington, (D) Delhi, Louisiana:
"It means a lot for a small town like this, and hopefully give a lot of our people an opportunity to get good paying jobs."

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Holly Ridge, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
14. Excavator scrapes ground

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Delhi, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Walker, Copeland Electric office manager:
"Copeland Electric is one of a handful of electrical contractors that were selected nationwide to participate in this project."

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Holly Ridge, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
16. Man operates excavator
17. Heavy machinery moves around at Meta data center site

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Delhi, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Walker, Copeland Electric office manager:
"Oh it's absolutely good for business. I mean, we have been able to bring a large percentage of our workforce back home to Monroe, Louisiana."

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Holly Ridge, Louisiana - 18 August 2025
19. Truck drives through Meta data center site
20. Buddy McCartney, who lives near the Meta data center site, sits in his recliner
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21. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"Hopefully, it will help the parish as far as the tax revenue they going to get out of it, but I don't know what else you benefit out of it."
22. Cars drive past Meta data center site
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"It's not quiet. It's not peaceful."
24. For sale sign
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25. SOUNDBITE (English) Buddy McCartney, lives near Meta data center:
"So, we've decided we want to move out of all of this activity."
STORYLINE:
For most of his life, Buddy McCartney, 76, has lived in what he describes as the quiet, close-knit unincorporated community of Holly Ridge, Louisiana.


"The public and the people living here didn't know what was going on till it hit," McCartney said.













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