Louisiana Senator Facilitated Meta Data Center, Sold Adjacent Land Amid Ethics Probe
Senator John “Jay” Morris, while facilitating Meta’s Hyperion datacenter project in Louisiana, engaged in the buying and selling of land surrounding the development. This included selling hundreds of acres to Entergy for a power plant to supply the datacenter, raising concerns about potential ethics violations. Experts suggest his actions, which involved legislative support for the project and subsequent land deals, may contravene laws prohibiting officials from benefiting financially from their public duties. Morris denies any wrongdoing, stating his land holdings are public record and the legislation he supported was broadly applicable.
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