By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
Louisiana’s data center boom continues with an existing project that’s will expand its existing footprint.
Fireworks and confetti fill the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium for Amazon’s announcement Feb. 23, 2026, of it plans to build three connected data centers in Bossier and Caddo parishes. (Elise Plunk/LAI)
By Elise Plunk
A third facility, not officially part of Amazon’s original $12 billion investment announced in February, will bring the total project value to $18 billion. The expansion comes as debate continues in Louisiana over data centers’ natural resource and electricity use. Questions are also growing about the prevalence of elected officials signing nondisclosure agreements to limit scrutiny of the state and local subsidies offered to entice industrial development to the state.
Familes in Pecan Island worry a potential SpaceX project could threaten the way of life they’ve experienced for generations. (Photo courtesy Brooke Broussard)
By Dean Boudreaux | The Current
Pecan Island residents say they haven’t heard much of anything about a potential SpaceX project, at least not from official sources. This might be in part because of a strategy by Louisiana Economic Development of requiring elected officials to sign nondisclosure agreements in order to receive information on major projects, such as a prospective rocket launch site.
A family waits in line to apply for asylum at the southern border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. (Corrie Boudreaux/Source NM)
By Shalina Chatlani
The number of refugees admitted to the United States during the first 10 months of the federal fiscal year is on pace to hit its lowest level on record, according to a new analysis. The new numbers reflect a steep decline in refugee admissions since President Donald Trump began his second term, according to a new analysis of State Department data by the Pew Research Center.
By Ashley Murray
Historic preservationists asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to deny President Donald Trump’s appeal to continue construction on his $400 million White House ballroom on the grounds of the demolished East Wing. In response to Trump’s application to the high court, the National Trust for Historic Preservation argued irreparable harm would result if construction continued.
COMMENTARY
By Greg LaRose
An inconvenient truth is being overshadowed by an increasingly tedious melodrama between Gov. Jeff Landry and Mayor Helena Moreno, and not many of my fellow New Orleanians are willing to admit it. It’s that the city’s court system is long overdue for a right-sizing to adjust for its roughly 25% population loss since Hurricane Katrina.
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