Louisiana public service commissioners voted 4-1 on Wednesday afternoon to approve a controversial Entergy proposal for three new gas plants, which will power Meta’s AI data center under construction in Richland Parish in northeast Louisiana. The contested natural gas plants will be used to power Meta’s $10 billion data center, which will be among the largest in the Western Hemisphere when it’s completed in 2030. The data center will draw twice the power used by the city of New Orleans on a hot summer day. To provide that power, the $3.2 billion trio of new Entergy plants will produce 2.3 megawatts of power when they are completed in 2026. Entergy profits from building new power plants and transmission lines, as it can charge ratepayers to earn a rate of return on those investments.