How Big is Big?
META is building a massive (AI)-focused data centre in northeast Louisiana. The site footprint is 2,250 acres of land - making the Hyperion Data Center one of the largest data-center construction sites ever attempted in the United States. It is a nearly five-mile-long, one-mile-wide tract of land that is being developed to power Meta’s AI ambitions. It is hard to understand the true scale of a megaproject like this when all you’re looking at is a rectangle in the middle of nowhere. To make that scale legible, Sherwood News has built an interactive map that lets you move Hyperion anywhere in the United States. Sherwood’s map - See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is - solves a classic cartographic problem: how do you convey scale when there’s nothing nearby for comparison? The solution is simple and effective - compare it to somewhere familiar. The map takes a satellite outline of the Hyperion site and allows you to: Drop it onto Manhattan Overlay it on Wa...
