From KNOE reporting
Holly Ridge sits in Richland Parish, Louisiana, home to 19,643 residents in the Census Bureau’s July 2024 estimate. Meta’s Hyperion project, in a July 2026 company forecast, calls for more than 7,500 construction workers at peak and 1,000 permanent jobs once the campus is completed.
Those two figures measure different phases of the same project. Peak construction is a planned temporary crew, large enough that more than 7,500 workers would equal more than a third of the parish population. The 1,000 permanent jobs are the staff Meta says would remain after construction. Both numbers are company forecasts, not jobs confirmed as filled. The comparison below is about scale. It does not claim that Richland residents will hold these jobs. Many construction workers travel in.
KNOE reported from Holly Ridge in November 2026 that construction around the project was disrupting the community, and that residents were weighing whether to leave their homes. Kevin Dove, a Holly Ridge resident, told reporter Shahid Evans:
"It's just a whole totally different country. I mean, this is not country anymore. It's like turning into town."
Kevin Dove, Holly Ridge resident, quoted by Shahid Evans in KNOE, Nov. 2, 2026.
What that reporting documents
The disruption KNOE described, and Dove’s account of country turning into town, come from that published report.
What remains an open question
That reporting does not answer who will house a peak crew of that size, how many parish residents will receive jobs or apprenticeships, or who will pay for the power and water the campus needs. This site does not yet have project-specific estimates for household bills, water use, housing effects or tax costs at Hyperion.
