A Miami-based Bitcoin mining company breaks ground on an A-I data center in West Feliciana Parish. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey will face her alma mater in a game that will be played in New Orleans. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has broken ground on a massive 2.5-billion-dollar artificial intelligence data center in West Feliciana Parish. It will consist of two, 450-thousand-square-foot buildings, and it will create thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Parish President Kenny Havard says this will be an economic game-changer – not just for the parish, but for the entire region.
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As with all data centers, there is concern about the energy that this one will require to operate. Havard says the parish is well-equipped to handle the demand.
Havard says furthermore, the state is well-equipped to handle construction of data centers and other facilities that require high energy usage.
The first of the two buildings of the Hut 8 data center is expected to be completed by the end of the year; the second is set to be completed by the end of 2026.
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Kim Mulkey will face her alma mater this season for the first time since she took the head coaching job at LSU. The Lady Tigers and La Tech will meet on December 13th in the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans in the first game of a doubleheader. Kent Lowe with the LSU Sports Information Department says the Lady Tigers and Lady Techsters are the two most successful women’s basketball programs in the state..
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Mulkey won two national championships at Ruston and led LSU to its first national title in women’s basketball in 2023.
This will be the second time that Mulkey will face her alma mater; the other time coming in 2009 when she led Baylor to a 77-67 win. United Sports Entertainment helped set up the game and Rhossi Carron (Karen) says they are excited Mulkey agreed to play her alma mater…
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The second game will be the LSU men taking on SMU. The teams will compete in the Compete 4 Cause Classic. Lowe says the players from all of the teams involved will participate in a community service event in New Orleans with children on December 12th and then LSU fans can watch both the LSU women and men compete on the same day…
LSU begins its presale tomorrow morning, and the Smoothie King Center will begin its presale Thursday morning. Tickets to the general public go on sale Friday morning.
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The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission is taking public input on a proposal that would prohibit the rehabilitation of injured coyotes. Farmers and ranchers support the rule change because they say coyotes will prey on cattle, but professor of zoological medicine at the LSU Vet school, Doctor Mark Mitchell, says there’s a benefit to taking in an injured coyote, bringing them back to health and releasing them back to the wild…
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reports only six coyote rehabilitations were reported in 2024. It’s believed there are about 50 thousand to 100 thousand coyotes in the state. Over the years there’s been more reports of coyotes in residential neighborhoods. Mitchell
But Mitchell says by rehabilitating the coyotes, we can track how they interact and adapt once they are released back into the wild…
Mitchell also points out that coyotes can rid neighborhoods of unwanted pests…
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The public comment on the ban on the practice of rehabilitating what are designated as outlaw quadrupeds in Louisiana is open to October 1st. It applies to three species, coyotes, armadillos and feral hogs.