Project dossier · Caddo Parish, Louisiana

AWS Caddo Parish In review

$12B multi-site data center investment in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

Key facts

Operator: Amazon
Owner: Amazon
Location: Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Stage today: In review

What to do next

Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.

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What has happened so far (21 events)

2025-10-01filing
Memorandums of purchase and sale filed for two tracts totaling over 810 acres for what became the AWS/STACK campuses — one at Resilient Technology Park in west Shreveport, the other along State Line Road near Blanchard. · source
2025-12-01incentive
Caddo Parish Commission voted in support of a PILOT incentive package to help attract the AWS data center campus. · source
2025-12-03denial
Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission denied the special use permit for the then-unnamed data center project at the Resilient Technology Park campus. · source
2025-12-18vote
Shreveport City Council voted 7-0 to overturn the Planning Commission denial and approve the special use permit for the west Shreveport data center. · source
2026-01-01lawsuit
Three plaintiffs filed suit in Caddo Parish District Court seeking judicial review of the City Council decision overturning the Planning Commission denial, putting the west Shreveport project in legal limbo for roughly 90 days. · source
2026-02-23announcement
Gov. Landry and Amazon publicly announced a $12 billion, multi-site AWS data center buildout across Caddo and Bossier Parishes developed with STACK Infrastructure; expected to create 540 direct jobs and support 1,710 additional FTE positions. · source
2026-02-23incentive
Amazon detailed state incentives including LED FastStart workforce training, High Impact Jobs Program, Data Center Sales Tax Exemption, plus commitments to pay 100% of its own electricity costs and invest roughly $400 million in public water infrastructure. · source
2026-02-23utility
AEP/SWEPCO stated that no costs associated with serving the new Amazon data centers would be passed along to existing utility ratepayers. · source
2026-02-24coverage
Local coverage confirmed the specific campus locations spanning Bossier and Caddo Parishes, including the Resilient Technology Park and Stateline Road sites. · source
2026-02-25public-comment
Shreveport residents raised concerns at public meetings over the Amazon data center impact on utilities, water supply and the environment, including questions about roughly 7.5 million gallons of water per day. · source
2026-03-01protest
Community organizers held a town hall The Truth About Data Centers drawing nearly 100 attendees opposed to the project over environmental impact, infrastructure strain and lack of oversight. · source
2026-03-18hearing
Bossier Parish Police Jury held a two-hour-plus public hearing on the final property allocation for the $6 billion Bossier campus; residents pressed officials on water usage, contamination risk, noise, and NDA use during site-selection. · source
2026-03-19vote
Bossier Parish Police Jury formally backed the Amazon data center project, approving the property allocation. · source
2026-04-20ruling
Judge Ramon Lafitte dismissed the lawsuit challenging the City Council approval of the special use permit for the Resilient Technology Park campus, clearing the way for construction. · source
2026-07-13report
Reporting highlighted that Caddo Parish has no comprehensive land-use/zoning blueprint for unincorporated areas, meaning the parish cannot enforce typical land-use regulations on data center development. · source
2026-07-30public-comment
Amazon and STACK held informational briefings for Bossier and Shreveport officials including public safety representatives. · source
2026-08-12coverage
Reporting detailed a proposal to freeze new data center tax breaks in Caddo Parish while officials study long-term fiscal and infrastructure effects. · source
2026-08-17moratorium
Commissioner John-Paul Young introduced Resolution 53 proposing a two-year moratorium on new data center developments, expansions, and tax incentive agreements in unincorporated Caddo Parish; would not affect the AWS campus already under construction. · source
2026-08-18hearing
At a Caddo Parish Commission work session, commissioners clashed over data center oversight resolutions; an attempt to fast-track failed 8-3 and commissioners voted 11-0 to refer both measures to committee. Parish attorney warned the proposed moratorium cannot legally be enacted by resolution. · source
2026-08-18announcement
AWS announced a third data center campus for Shreveport/Resilient Technology Park, a $6 billion addition bringing total NW Louisiana investment to $18 billion; adds 210 direct jobs (up to 750 across all campuses) plus up to $400M in public water infrastructure. · source
2026-08-18coverage
Shreveport civic and business leaders characterized the additional $6 billion Amazon investment as a milestone for the region. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 12 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Louisiana DEQThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
LDEQ Electronic Document Management SystemSearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Parish Commission agendas & packetsThe meeting packet carries the staff report, site plan and conditions — verified page for this locality.
Search Caddo Parish planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Caddo Parish property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

MISO (Midwest & Gulf) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Louisiana Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Caddo Parish community briefing — Rejectedterm not documented
Louisiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “AWS Caddo Parish”, aigridwatch.com/projects/aws-caddo-parish-la, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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