The test. Each Franklin Farms unit that enters service by 31 December 2028 within the May 2026 cost estimate weakens the chapter’s emphasis on the transformer.
open Open. Franklin Farms 1 and 2 are dated for service in 2028.
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- Entergy’s filings and the U-37425 quarterly monitors
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- Chapter 6 — Firm, Around-the-Clock
Where the electricity comes from: grid queues, transformers, turbines and the firm power a datacenter needs every hour of the year, on calendars the buildout does not control.
Filings that bear on it
- Louisiana Public Service Commission, Order in Docket U-37425, 29 August 2025
Louisiana’s utility commission approved a settlement letting Entergy Louisiana build three combined-cycle generators and transmission for Meta’s Richland Parish data center, with conditions on the customer’s minimum monthly charges, parent guaranty and early termination fee, and quarterly progress reports.
- Edward Burgess, Direct testimony and exhibits on behalf of Alliance for Affordable Energy and Union of Concerned Scientists, LPSC Docket U-37882, 31 July 2026
Testimony for two advocacy groups on Entergy Louisiana’s seven new generators for a second Meta data center in Richland Parish reports that the first project’s generation and transmission estimate rose $465 million, about 11.7 percent, to $4.421 billion.
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Chapter 6, the transformer.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-10 (accessed 2026-11-01).
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@misc{dryburgh-chapter-6-the-transformer-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Chapter 6, the transformer}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-10},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}