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1 data center project in New Orleans City

Who decides here: the City Council of New Orleans City votes on zoning. The Orleans Parish may review big projects too.

In New Orleans City

Stopped or cancelled

MS Solar Grid Data center (New Orleans East)

New Orleans, Orleans Parish

🕒 Jan 28, 2026: New Orleans City Council voted unanimously for a temporary ban on data centers; the deve…

Local votes and rules

⏸️ Pause on new data centers

City council voted 6-0 to stop all data center approvals and licenses citywide for one year, using a temporary zoning district. It came hours before the developer of a proposed data center in New Orleans East pulled its permit. The pause can be extended.

Jan 28, 2026Source

📜 Data center rules

Council asked the City Planning Commission to write the city's first data center rules: a definition, where they may go, and limits on noise, size and safety. As of late summer 2026 the commission had not sent final rules to the council.

Jan 28, 2026Source
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What you can do

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⚡ Your electric company

Depending on where you live in New Orleans City: Entergy Louisiana LLC (company) or Entergy New Orleans, LLC (company) or Washington-st Tammany E C, Inc. (co-op (owned by its members)).

Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Louisiana.

🙋 Open tasks here

  • Which parish is MS Solar Grid Data now looking at?

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