Dina Powell McCormick
Meta (data-center / public policy)
aka Dina Powell, Meta's Dina Powell
“It's an honor for me to be here with Sheldon and Susan. We spent a lot of time in Louisiana. It's our largest data center investment for Meta.”
“If a community doesn't want one of our data centers, they get to choose, they get to decide, but that we actually have to up front and way more aggressively explain what our Investment and partnership means. And we have a compact ... First, not just pay for your own electricity, make sure that you're working to drive electricity costs down. The second is the water issue. It's very real in farmland and rural communities. ... The third is the teachers. I'll be very honest, this was not our idea.”
Dina Powell McCormick
One-line summary: Meta executive speaking for the company's largest data-center investment, in Louisiana. Tracked for siting-compact color against the moratorium-risk register.
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On state-datacenter-siting-moratorium-risk:
"It's an honor for me to be here with Sheldon and Susan. We spent a lot of time in Louisiana. It's our largest data center investment for Meta." — 2026-09-18-all-in-podcast-meta-s-dina-powell-mccormick-the-case-for-data (2026-09-17)
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On state-datacenter-siting-moratorium-risk:
"If a community doesn't want one of our data centers, they get to choose, they get to decide, but that we actually have to up front and way more aggressively explain what our Investment and partnership means. And we have a compact ... First, not just pay for your own electricity, make sure that you're working to drive electricity costs down. The second is the water issue. It's very real in farmland and rural communities. ... The third is the teachers. I'll be very honest, this was not our idea." — 2026-09-18-all-in-podcast-meta-s-dina-powell-mccormick-the-case-for-data (2026-09-17)
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