Under pressure, Entergy looks to mitigate cost of $1.8B Texas gas plant purchase

7-12 GW Data center pipeline, also unchanged. Jefferies equity analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith said the Cottonwood deal is “increasingly in doubt” in a Wednesday report. Meta’s data center plans, announced in March, added about $15 billion to Entergy’s capital investment plan, which now sits at $67 billion. The deal with Meta pushed Entergy’s data center pipeline to 7-12 GW of potential load, and it also was not expanded. New data center additions may be slowing, according to analytics consultancy Wood Mackenzie.