Louisiana shows no signs of a statewide data center moratorium, with Governor Jeff Landry actively courting hyperscale AI infrastructure through the Data Center Sales and Use Tax Exemption while adding ratepayer protections via his June 2026 Ratepayer and Community Protection Framework. This requires developers to attest to grid reliability, water use, job creation, and no cost shifts to existing customers before accessing incentives for projects like Meta’s $50 billion Richland Parish campus. Local pauses, including New Orleans’ ongoing one-year ban and Ascension Parish’s recent 90-day moratorium, reflect community pushback over power and water demands but have not scaled statewide. Key near-term catalysts include the November 3 elections, a December LPSC vote on Entergy’s generation plan for Meta, and January 2027 parish council reviews, sustaining trader consensus against a broad state-level halt.