Data center boom & traffic safety

Louisiana is home to a Hyperion data center project by Meta. The project is located in a rural portion of the state and since it began “has coincided with” a 600% spike in truck crashes on the two lane rural roads.

A highway safety researcher at LSU sums it up as “I think it’s incumbent of them to be a good steward of the public trust.”

Louisiana Illuminator | Construction on Meta’s largest data center brings 600% crash spike, chaos to rural Louisiana