Trappeys Cannery fed Louisiana families for over a century. It's been closed for 30 years. Willow Glen Terminal powered the state with 2,200 megawatts. It's been shut down since 2016. We're bringing both back to life — not as what they were, but as what Louisiana needs next: AI factories that serve our schools, our hospitals, and our communities.
Corporate AI factories serve corporate shareholders. This serves Louisiana. Same NVIDIA technology. Same 800V DC architecture. But instead of mining Bitcoin or selling cloud credits to Silicon Valley, every GPU hour goes to education, medical research, and community development.
Get a complete breakdown of what an AI factory is, how 800V DC power works, why Louisiana has the best incentives, and how tokens are the new commodity. No jargon. Plain English.
Any Louisiana college, university, or K-12 school can participate. Register your institution, find out what grants you qualify for, and get connected to AI compute resources.
This money was put here for us. For our kids. For our schools. For our state. The federal government allocated it. The state legislature approved it. It's sitting there waiting to be claimed. Nobody is doing the paperwork. That changes today.
19+ programs. They all stack. Same project.
No other state in America offers this combination at this cost of power. This is Louisiana's moment. These programs were designed for exactly what we're building. The only thing missing is someone to file the paperwork. That's why this page exists.
Register Now — Don't Leave Money On The Table →At GTC 2026, NVIDIA announced the 50-State Plan — replicating the UF model in every state. Chris Malachowsky (NVIDIA co-founder, UF alumnus) championed Florida's $180M investment. Louisiana has no champion, no plan, and no infrastructure. Meta is spending $27 billion in rural Louisiana. Amazon is spending $12 billion. Hut 8 is spending $10 billion. None of them serve a single university student or K-12 classroom. $37 billion in AI compute being built in this state and zero of it accessible to the people who live here.
We build the infrastructure. Universities get compute access. K-12 schools get workforce pipeline. The state gets ahead. No donation required. No taxpayer funding. Two anchor sites already identified. Vendors ready. Incentives allocated. All that's missing is the paperwork. That's what this page is for.
40 miles from Henry Hub — the national benchmark for natural gas. $0.04–0.058/kWh behind the meter. Virginia pays $0.12. California pays $0.27. We don't need the grid. We generate our own power.
First Solar's $1.1 billion factory in New Iberia. American-made Series 7 TR1 panels. 30 miles from Lafayette, 90 miles from Willow Glen. Louisiana supply chain. Louisiana jobs.
96% power delivery efficiency vs 83% traditional. 45% less copper. Built to NVIDIA's DSX reference design. The same architecture powering the world's largest AI factories.
45–55% historic tax credits. 80% property tax abatement. 20-year sales tax exemption. 30% solar ITC. FREE workforce training. Federal + state + local — all on the same project.
100% bonus depreciation permanent. Opportunity Zones. CHIPS Act. $1.355B broadband funding. LED FastStart #1 for 13 years. The Big Beautiful Bill put America first. Louisiana is leading.
Louisiana Cat (generators). First Solar (panels). Eaton (800V DC). ATMOS Energy (gas). Diamond Green Diesel (renewable fuel). All American-made. All within driving distance.
No black box. No waiting in the dark. You see exactly where your application is at every step. Here's the process from start to finish.
Federal and state funding for AI infrastructure is allocated and waiting to be claimed. Multiple programs have expiration dates. Nobody is filing the paperwork. That's what this initiative fixes.
How This Works — 4 Steps
(337) 448-4242 | info@louisianaai.net | louisianaai.net
Lafayette, Louisiana
Louisiana's AI Infrastructure Initiative is a free public service.
We built this system to accelerate the process of getting Louisiana's schools, universities, and communities connected to AI compute infrastructure. The federal and state governments have allocated billions of dollars in funding for exactly this purpose. The problem is nobody is doing the paperwork. Programs expire. Money goes unclaimed. Louisiana falls behind.
This platform is powered by AI agents that help identify which programs your institution qualifies for, pre-fill application templates, and track deadlines. It's designed so that anyone — a teacher, a principal, a university administrator, a city official, or a concerned citizen — can sit down, register their institution, and start the process.
There is no fee. There is no charge. There will never be a charge. We do not sell your information. We do not share your information with third parties unless you specifically direct us to file an application on your behalf. This is a service for Louisiana, by Louisiana.