Amazon Data Center Brings 750 Louisiana Jobs
The $18 billion project across Caddo and Bossier parishes has buildings potentially finished by 2027, still in development.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Data Centers
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Amazon advanced an $18 billion data center project spanning three campuses in Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwest Louisiana. The project is in development, with physical buildings potentially completed by 2027, so it should be read as announced rather than operating.
Why it matters
The project anchors a large-scale data center buildout in the state, with site selection weighing power and water infrastructure, highway access, and available space. Prior research and planning at the sites reportedly accelerated progress, which signals how regional readiness is becoming a deciding factor in where hyperscale capacity gets built.
The headline figures are an $18 billion investment and 750 contractually guaranteed jobs paying above $90,000 per year, all reported by project participants rather than independently verified. The source gives no power draw, water usage, or server capacity for the campuses, so the scale of the infrastructure behind the investment cannot be measured from the available information.
The players
Amazon
The cloud computing giant behind AWS, which operates some of the largest hyperscale data center networks in the world and is advancing this $18 billion project.
STACK Infrastructure
A data center developer and operator that serves as the lead construction partner on the Louisiana project.
Bossier Chamber of Commerce
The regional business organization that released its fifth annual State of the Community report covering health care, energy, transportation, and defense.
The details
A data center is a building filled with racks of servers that run and store computing workloads for cloud and AI services. Developing one at this scale depends on securing reliable electricity and water supplies, road access for construction and equipment, and enough contiguous land to host multiple buildings. According to the panel, site selection in this project evaluated exactly those factors, along with opportunities for local governments to improve infrastructure. Construction partner STACK Infrastructure is leading building work on the project.
Timeline
- 2026-11-02
Bossier Chamber luncheon where the State of the Community report was released, with the Amazon project discussed on the panel.
2027: Physical data center buildings are potentially completed.
The Tech Race
Amazon's Louisiana campuses extend its ongoing hyperscale buildout, in which cloud providers compete to secure power, water, and land for new capacity. The race for AI and cloud capacity is now as much about regional infrastructure readiness as about chip supply.
Construction work on the three campuses is expected to go to Louisiana contractors, so local trades would see the most direct near-term effect. Timeline and availability of the guaranteed jobs have not been specified beyond the potential 2027 building completion.
The takeaway
Watch for the 2027 milestone when physical buildings are potentially completed, since that will show whether the project's timeline holds. The 750 guaranteed jobs and their wage commitments are the concrete figures to track against actual hiring.
Further reading
For broader context on how these facilities are sited and built, see the Data Centers section.
Source note: This article includes information reported by KLAX 31 Alexandria.
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