Meta has acquired additional land as part of its plans to build a 2GW data center campus in Louisiana.

The company announced plans to build a four million sq ft (372,000 sqm) facility known as Hyperion in Richland Parish in late 2024, set on 2,250 acres. At the end of 2025, in a deal first reported by Forbes, Meta quietly purchased an additional 1,400 acres of adjacent land.

Acquired from local landowner George B. Franklin & Sons, early site preparation appears to already be underway on Meta's new land.

More than 3,700 construction workers have been working on the original 2,250 acres, which was initially set to cost $10 billion. Last October, Meta formed a $27 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital to fund the project, suggesting that its ambitions for the site have grown.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg also said last year that Hyperion "could scale up to 5GW over several years."

Hyperion was initially set to span nine buildings, with each coming online in phases through 2030, totalling 2GW. Whether that timeline has changed is not clear.

This January, the company set up Meta Compute to focus on building tens of gigawatts of compute this decade, "and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time," Zuckerberg said.

Alongside its own gigawatt data center construction projects, Meta reportedly signed a $10bn+ cloud deal with Google in August, followed by a $14.2bn CoreWeave deal last September, a $3bn Nebius contract in November, and is in talks with Oracle for a $20bn contract.