$10B Meta Hyperion AI Data Center in Louisiana Needs 10 Low Voltage Systems

Meta is building the largest data center in its history in rural northeast Louisiana, and it runs on low voltage. Hyperion — a $10 billion, 4 million-square-foot AI campus in Richland Parish — carries a Signal-tracked low voltage opportunity of $400 million across ten distinct low voltage systems.

Project Overview

Project data shows Hyperion rising on the former Franklin Farm megasite between Rayville and Delhi in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Meta describes a 4 million-square-foot campus on 2,250 acres, more than $10 billion in reported investment, and more than 2 GW of compute capacity — making it, per Meta’s own announcement, the company’s largest data center to date.

• Project value: $10 billion+ reported investment
• Location: Former Franklin Farm megasite, Richland Parish, LA (between Rayville and Delhi)
• Scale: 4M sq ft across 2,250 acres; 2 GW+ of compute capacity
• Economic impact: $875M+ in first-year Louisiana business contracts; $300M+ in local infrastructure commitments
• Workforce: ~5,000 construction jobs at peak; 500+ permanent operations roles
• Power: Served by Entergy Louisiana

The Signal record carries an LV opportunity score of 10 out of 10 — the ceiling — reflecting the density of mission-critical systems a gigawatt-scale AI campus demands.

Key Players

This is a Tier 1 project with a public delivery roster. Low voltage contractors should note who holds the prime relationships:

Role	Company	Notes
Owner / Operator	Meta	Developing its largest data center to date
General Contractors	Mortenson, Turner Construction, DPR Construction	Three-firm general-contractor team
Power	Entergy Louisiana	Utility and power-infrastructure partner
Economic Development	Louisiana Economic Development, Richland Revitalization Board	State and regional stakeholders

For LV specialists, the structured cabling, fiber, and physical-security scopes will flow through the three-firm GC team. Meta’s $875M in first-year Louisiana business contracts signals a deliberate local-sourcing push — an opening for regional integrators who can meet hyperscale standards.

Low Voltage Systems Breakdown

A hyperscale AI data center is one of the most low-voltage-intensive structures built today. Signal identifies ten systems in scope on Hyperion:

System	Scope	Complexity
Fiber Backbone	Campus and inter-building single-mode fiber; spine-leaf interconnect	Very High
Structured Cabling	High-density copper and fiber to compute, storage, and network rows	Very High
Outside Plant (OSP)	Duct bank, conduit, and campus fiber across the 2,250-acre site	High
Networking	Passive infrastructure for AI fabric and management networks	Very High
Access Control	Multi-layer perimeter, mantrap, and cage-level credentialing	High
CCTV / Video Surveillance	Full-coverage IP video, analytics, and retention	High
Fire Alarm & Detection	VESDA aspirating detection, clean-agent interface, mass notification	Very High
BMS / Building Controls	Cooling, power, and environmental monitoring integration	Very High
DAS	In-building cellular and public-safety radio coverage	Medium
Grounding & Bonding	Signal reference grid, lightning protection, equipment bonding	High

Estimated Low Voltage Value

Signal’s enrichment pipeline puts the low voltage and structured infrastructure opportunity at approximately $400 million — roughly 4% of the $10 billion campus value, a benchmark consistent with hyperscale data center construction where mission-critical cabling, physical security, and controls carry an outsized share of the technology budget.

That figure is not a single award. It represents the aggregate LV scope across the campus — work that will be packaged, bid, and delivered in phases over the multi-year buildout. For contractors, the takeaway is scale: even a single-system package on one Hyperion building can exceed the total value of a typical commercial project.

Skills & Certifications

Winning work on a hyperscale AI campus requires credentials well beyond standard commercial LV. Expect owners and primes to require:

• BICSI RCDD and DCDC (Data Center Design Consultant) — the baseline for mission-critical cabling design
• BICSI INSTC / INSTF and FOA CFOT — certified fiber installation and termination at scale
• NICET Fire Alarm Level II+ with VESDA / aspirating detection and clean-agent experience
• Manufacturer certifications for access control and IP video (Genetec, Lenel, Software House, Axis)
• IEEE / BICSI grounding and bonding competency for signal reference grids and lightning protection
• OT / BMS integration and IEC 62443 awareness for controls network cybersecurity
• Capacity to meet hyperscale safety, scheduling, and prevailing-wage requirements on a multi-GC team

Market Signal

Hyperion plants the AI infrastructure boom in the Deep South — and it is one of a national cluster Signal is now tracking, from the Oracle-OpenAI Stargate campuses in Michigan and Wisconsin to Hut 8 on the Texas Gulf Coast and Meta’s own gigawatt site in Indiana. Every one carries a perfect 10 LV opportunity score and the same ten-system profile.

For low voltage contractors, this is a structural shift. AI infrastructure is concentrating enormous, cabling-dense, security-heavy scopes into a handful of megasites — and with Meta committing $875M in first-year Louisiana contracts, Richland Parish is a fresh market with a $400M LV opportunity that did not exist a year ago.

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