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Data Center Watch Report · ZIP 71119

Shreveport

Caddo Parish

ApprovedZIP 60.3% Blackpop 10,364

Approved — under legal challenge and moving to construction. This ZIP is the host of the west Shreveport Amazon/STACK data center.

Researched: 2026-08-02 · Lead source: Brockovich AI Data Center community map (4 resident reports, 2026-04-30 → 2026-07-17) · ZIP demographics: 60.3% Black, pop 10,364 (Census ACS 2023) · County: Caddo Parish (roughly 49% Black — verify at census.gov/quickfacts/caddoparishlouisiana) Status: Approved — under legal challenge and moving to construction. This ZIP is the host of the west Shreveport Amazon/STACK data center.

This report is research, not legal, financial, real-estate, or investment advice.

0. Snapshot

ZIP 71119 covers west Shreveport — the Mooretown / Greenwood Road corridor along Interstate 20, running out toward the Shreveport Regional Airport. This is not a ZIP that merely neighbors the Caddo Parish data-center boom. The single confirmed Shreveport data-center campus sits inside it, at 7340 Greenwood Road.

  • The facility: a data center at 7340 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, LA 71119, inside the Resilient Technology Park (a ~233–313 acre certified industrial site owned by Franks Investment Co. LLC). Plans describe a 2.8 million-square-foot complex — seven two-story data-center buildings plus a ~104,000 sq ft office building and an on-site electrical substation. (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate; zoomprospector property record, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Who: Louisiana Economic Development and Amazon confirmed in February 2026 that this is one of three interconnected Amazon Web Services (AWS) campuses in the $12 billion northwest Louisiana project, developed by STACK Infrastructure (Denver). Data-center trackers list the site as "STACK Infrastructure LA 6." AWS is the tenant/operator. (datacenterHawk; KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Water: the permit allows the site to draw as much as 7.5 million gallons of water per day. That is the central fight, in a city under a federal sewer consent decree with repeated citywide boil advisories. (710 KEEL; Citizen Portal, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • How it was approved: the Shreveport-Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission deadlocked 4–4 (effectively a denial). The Shreveport City Council overturned that and approved the special-exception use permit on 2026-12-18 (reported as a unanimous vote) after hours of public testimony; some opponents were escorted out by police. (710 KEEL; KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Litigation: Mooringsport Mayor Tyler Gordon and two local residents sued for judicial review. Caddo District Judge Ramon Lafitte dismissed the challenge in April 2026, clearing the path after the project sat "in limbo" for 56 days. Opponents said they may appeal. (The Center Square / KTBS; Business Report, accessed 2026-08-02)

1. The Facility & Where It Sits

  • Address / site: 7340 Greenwood Road, in the Resilient Technology Park, west Shreveport, adjacent to I-20, near the I-20/I-49 interchange and Shreveport Regional Airport, with KCS and UP rail access. Zoned Industrial-Light; holds Louisiana Certified Site status. Electric service is AEP/SWEPCO (a 138 kV transmission line runs ~0.75 miles away); gas is CenterPoint; water and sewer are City of Shreveport. (zoomprospector, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Owner/developer of the park: Franks Investment Co. LLC (manager Bobby Jelks); engineering by Bohler Engineering. The site already hosts a $100 million AEP transmission control center that helps monitor AEP's grid. (710 KEEL, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Scale: original filings described a >1 million sq ft data center; it grew to a 2.8 million sq ft program (seven two-story buildings) needing MPC/Council site-plan approval. (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Power capacity (MW): Not found as of 2026-08-02. AWS/SWEPCO have said the megawatt figure will be disclosed in a future Louisiana Public Service Commission filing that is still being prepared. (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate — SWEPCO, accessed 2026-08-02)

The border — where it sits relative to people

  • This is the Black, working-class side of Shreveport. ZIP 71119 is 60.3% Black. The Greenwood Road / Mooretown corridor is a long-industrialized stretch (airport, rail yards, the AEP control center, Bert Kouns Industrial Loop). The data center is being dropped into an existing industrial edge that borders residential blocks.
  • Flooding and tree loss — a specific, local concern. Caddo Commissioner Ken Epperson publicly warned that the Greenwood Road data center could require significant tree removal and worsen flooding in a nearby neighborhood that already struggles with drainage. (KTBS — single developer eyes NW Louisiana properties; KSLA — commissioners seek environmental studies, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • The property assembly was quiet: a Denver entity, SAC III Acquisition Co., LLC, filed to buy 255 acres on the north side of Greenwood Road near Bert Kouns before the AWS deal was public. Residents said they learned of the plans from surveyors, not official notice. (KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)

2. Public Hearings & Notices

DateBodyAction
Fall 2025Shreveport-Caddo MPCSite-plan / special-exception review for the >1M→2.8M sq ft data center at 7340 Greenwood Rd; deadlocked 4–4 (functionally denied) (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate)
2025-12-18Shreveport City CouncilApproved the special-exception use permit, overturning the MPC deadlock, after hours of public testimony (reported unanimous) (710 KEEL; KTBS)
2026-02-23LED / Gov. LandryPublic announcement that this is one of three AWS/STACK campuses in the $12B project (Louisiana Illuminator via magnoliareporter)
2026-04-08First Judicial District Court (Caddo)City filed reply to the residents' petition for judicial review; hearing set 2026-04-20 (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate)
2026-04 (approx.)Judge Ramon LafitteDismissed the challenge; project cleared after 56 days "in limbo"; appeal possible (KTBS)

Upcoming: whether opponents file an appeal of Judge Lafitte's ruling was unresolved as of 2026-08-02. Watch the MPC (first Wednesday monthly) and City Council (see Section 8) for site-plan amendments and building permits.

3. Power

  • Serving utility: SWEPCO (Southwestern Electric Power Company, an AEP company), headquartered at 428 Travis St, Shreveport. (SWEPCO media contacts, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Amazon's commitment: AWS says it will pay 100% of its own electricity costs and fund the substations, transmission lines and specialized equipment its load requires; SWEPCO's president said "no costs associated with the Amazon data centers will be passed along to utility customers," and SWEPCO will not build a dedicated power plant for it. (Fox 8 / Louisiana Illuminator, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • What is unverified: the actual MW demand and the cost-allocation math are not yet before the public. The Louisiana PSC is developing "large-load" tariff rules to decide how big users pay for transmission upgrades without shifting costs to existing customers; Commissioner Davante Lewis pushed to open a rulemaking. AWS's SWEPCO load filing was still being prepared. (The Hayride; Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • On-site generation: the site plan includes an on-site electrical substation. No gas-turbine "bridge" generation like Memphis's has been reported here as of 2026-08-02. (710 KEEL)
  • Advocacy watchdog: the Alliance for Affordable Energy (New Orleans) is tracking LPSC data-center dockets statewide and warns residential bills could rise if large-load costs are socialized. (Alliance for Affordable Energy, accessed 2026-08-02)

4. Water & Drought

  • The number that matters: up to 7.5 million gallons per day. That is the water allocation tied to this permit. (710 KEEL; Citizen Portal, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Whose system: water and sewer at 7340 Greenwood Rd are City of Shreveport — the same distribution system that has been under a federal Clean Water Act consent decree since 2014 for chronic sewer overflows. The original fix was estimated at ~$342 million over 12 years; the city's Department of Water & Sewerage has since spent well over $500 million and still is not in full compliance; the compliance schedule runs to 2026-11-12. Ratepayers have absorbed repeated rate increases. (The Center Square; Clean Water Shreveport; Shreveport Water & Sewer — Consent Decree, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • System fragility, documented: Shreveport issued a citywide voluntary boil advisory on 2026-03-02 after a transmission-main break dropped pressure system-wide; the Louisiana Department of Health must clear lab samples before any advisory is lifted. West Shreveport (the "West Pressure Zone" that includes 71119) has been a recurring trouble spot. (City of Shreveport news release, 2026-03-02; KTAL; LDH boil-water advisories, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • AWS's answer: Amazon says the campuses will use water for cooling less than ~13% of the year (summer only), calls its design ~80% more efficient than industry average, and pledges $400 million toward public water infrastructure across Caddo-Bossier. Whether that money reaches the 71119 distribution system, and whether a 7.5 MGD peak draw is compatible with a consent-decree system, is exactly what residents are asking. (Fox 8 / Louisiana Illuminator, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Drought: as of mid-2026 Caddo Parish has ranged from normal to abnormally dry (D0); January–March 2026 was reported as the driest year-to-date in 132 years for the area. Check the live map for Caddo. (Drought.gov — Caddo Parish; U.S. Drought Monitor — Louisiana, accessed 2026-08-02)

5. Population & Who Lives Here

  • ZIP 71119: 60.3% Black; population 10,364 (Census ACS 2023). Covers the Mooretown / west Greenwood Road corridor.
  • Caddo Parish overall is roughly 49% Black; Shreveport proper is majority Black. The pattern here is the familiar one: the heavy-industrial parcel and its water/air/flooding burden fall on a majority-Black ZIP while the tax and job headlines are parish- and state-wide.
  • Documented vulnerabilities: west Shreveport neighborhoods near Greenwood Road already carry drainage/flooding problems (cited by Commissioner Epperson) and sit inside the water system most affected by consent-decree pressure problems. Parish-specific poverty and health-burden figures for 71119 were Not found in a single reachable source as of 2026-08-02 — see census.gov/quickfacts and the Caddo Parish health data for the specifics on your block.

6. Money — Abatements, Incentives, Jobs

  • State incentives named: Amazon is expected to use Louisiana's data-center sales-tax exemption and the High Impact Jobs Program; the state used the umbrella $12B/540-jobs figure for all three campuses combined. (LED — Amazon selects Louisiana, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Local property-tax relief (ITEP): Louisiana's Industrial Tax Exemption Program now requires local sign-off (parish, school board, sheriff, city). Reporting indicates parishes negotiated deals that could exempt ~60% of local property taxes if hiring targets (~150 jobs for Amazon per campus) are met. A confirmed, signed ITEP contract, dollar value and term for the 7340 Greenwood Rd campus was Not found as of 2026-08-02 — request it from the parish and the Caddo Parish School Board. (NOLA.com — tech tax breaks; Act 730 guide, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Jobs: the 540 permanent jobs (at ~150% of the state average wage) and ~1,500 construction jobs are program-wide across all three campuses, not for this ZIP alone. Ask for the written, per-campus jobs commitment and the clawback terms.

7. Community Reaction & News Coverage

  • Named opponents / voices: Mooringsport Mayor Tyler Gordon and two residents (petitioners); Shreveport residents Connor Ward and Abby Whittington (utility-bill and water concerns); Logan Burke, executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy ("There are so many unknowns at this point"). (KSLA; KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • The scene at the vote: several dozen residents spoke; after public comment some opponents shouted at the council and were escorted out by police — a sign of how contested this specific site is. (710 KEEL, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Local newsrooms covering it: Shreveport Times, KSLA (CBS), KTBS (ABC), KTAL/KMSS (NBC/Fox), 710 KEEL, the Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, The Center Square Louisiana, and the Louisiana Illuminator.

8. Find Out For Yourself

City — the body that approved this permit

Shreveport City Council — Government Plaza, 505 Travis St, 1st Floor Council Chamber, Shreveport, LA 71101. Meetings 3:00 p.m. (2nd & 4th Tuesdays). Mailing: P.O. Box 31109, Shreveport, LA 71130. (shreveportla.gov/201/City-Council, accessed 2026-08-02)

Council roster (2022–2026 term) — confirm which district covers your street on the City Council Districts map:

(shreveportla.gov — Contact Council Member, accessed 2026-08-02)

Planning & Zoning — where the site plan lives

Shreveport-Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) — 505 Travis St, Suite 440, Shreveport, LA 71101 · (318) 673-6498 · Regular meetings 1st Wednesday monthly, 3:00 p.m., Government Plaza Council Chambers. Agendas/decisions posted at shreveportcaddompc.com. (MPC contact, accessed 2026-08-02)

County

Caddo Parish Commission — 505 Travis St, Suite 110, Shreveport, LA 71101. Commission Clerk Jeff Everson, (318) 226-6596. Agendas at caddo.gov. Ask for Commissioner Ken Epperson's data-center resolutions (environmental/traffic study, flooding). (caddo.gov/contact, accessed 2026-08-02)

Water & Sewer

City of Shreveport Department of Water & Sewerage — alerts and consent-decree records at shreveportlawater.gov and cleanwatershreveport.com. Ask how a 7.5-MGD data-center draw is modeled against consent-decree obligations.

Utility & State regulator

  • SWEPCO — 428 Travis St, Shreveport; media/public line 318-673-3060; Louisiana External Affairs at swepco.com. Ask for the AWS large-load agreement and the LPSC filing timeline.
  • Louisiana Public Service Commission — lpsc.louisiana.gov. Your commissioner is District 5 (northwest LA), Foster Campbell — 124 South Grand St, Monroe, LA 71201 · (318) 362-3318 · foster.campbell@la.gov. Ask when the AWS/SWEPCO large-load docket opens for public comment. (LPSC District 5, accessed 2026-08-02)

Six questions worth asking

  1. To the City / Water & Sewerage: How does a 7.5 million-gallon-per-day peak draw at 7340 Greenwood Rd fit a water system still under a federal consent decree, and what happens during the next citywide boil advisory?
  2. To the MPC: What did the final approved site plan require for stormwater detention and tree preservation, given the flooding concerns Commissioner Epperson raised?
  3. To your Council member: Was any water-and-sewer agreement actually signed by the developer, and can I read it?
  4. To Caddo Parish / School Board: Has any ITEP property-tax exemption been approved for this campus? What value, what term, how many guaranteed jobs, and what clawback if the jobs don't materialize?
  5. To SWEPCO / LPSC: What is the campus's megawatt demand, and who pays for the transmission and substation upgrades?
  6. To the developer (via the City): Is on-site backup generation gas, diesel, or battery — and what are the air-permit and noise limits?

9. If You're Thinking About Moving Here

Neutral read, given what's documented:

  • Water. This is the single biggest issue. You would be on the City of Shreveport system, which is under a decade-old federal consent decree, has run hundreds of millions over budget, and issued a citywide boil advisory in March 2026. A permitted 7.5-MGD data-center peak draw sits on top of that. Amazon's efficiency and $400M infrastructure pledges are real promises but not yet delivered infrastructure.
  • Flooding. A parish commissioner has warned on the record that this specific project could increase flooding in a nearby, already-drainage-stressed neighborhood. Ask about your street's detention requirements before you buy.
  • Air / noise. No gas-turbine bridge power has been reported here (unlike Memphis). The site plan uses grid power plus an on-site substation. Confirm the backup-generation type and noise limits.
  • Power bills. Amazon has pledged to pay its own power costs and not shift them to ratepayers, and SWEPCO's president has said the same. The LPSC large-load rules that would lock that in are still being written — this is the number to watch.
  • Land prices. A single developer quietly assembled 255+ acres here before the AWS deal was public; expect continued acquisition pressure along Greenwood Road and Bert Kouns.
  • Unresolved: a possible appeal of the judge's ruling; the undisclosed MW load and cost allocation; the signed water-and-sewer agreement; and any ITEP tax deal.

The practical step: call the Department of Water & Sewerage about your pressure zone and the MPC about the approved stormwater plan for 7340 Greenwood Rd, and attend the next City Council and MPC meetings.

10. Sources

All accessed 2026-08-02.

  1. zoomprospector — 7340 Greenwood Road property record (address, ZIP 71119, acreage, utilities) — https://properties.zoomprospector.com/aep/property/7340-Greenwood-Road-Shreveport-Louisiana/2437FF40-298C-476C-850C-97902A3DC939
  2. datacenterHawk — STACK Infrastructure LA 6, 7340 Greenwood Road — https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/stack-infrastructure/7340-greenwood-road-6/la-6
  3. 710 KEEL — "Shreveport City Council Greenlights Major Data Center on Greenwood Road" — https://710keel.com/shreveport-data-center-approval/
  4. Citizen Portal — "Shreveport council approves data center after hours of public testimony; developers to sign water and sewer agreement" — https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7232033/louisiana/caddo-parish/shreveport-city/shreveport-council-approves-data-center-after-hours-of-public-testimony-developers-to-sign-water-and-sewer-agreement
  5. Shreveport-Bossier Advocate — "Huge Shreveport data center grows to 2.8M square feet" — https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/business/a-growing-data-center-site-in-west-shreveport-needs-approval-of-mpc/article_8bb0dc98-970b-445b-a7c5-3c9f4bd239b7.html
  6. KTBS — "City Council votes yes to Shreveport data center" — https://www.ktbs.com/news/city-council-votes-yes-to-shreveport-data-center/article_f75ee252-d0b1-4a8e-988e-40efbd6d4bee.html
  7. KTBS / The Center Square — "Judge clears path for Amazon data center in west Shreveport" — https://www.ktbs.com/news/louisiana/judge-clears-path-for-amazon-data-center-in-west-shreveport/article_d38fb72d-978f-5fad-be41-4c93ff7224d2.html
  8. Business Report — "Amazon wins round in fight over Shreveport data center" — https://www.businessreport.com/article/amazon-wins-round-in-fight-over-shreveport-data-center
  9. Shreveport-Bossier Advocate — "Shreveport data center slowed by legal review" — https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/business/shreveport-data-center-slowed-by-legal-review/article_36c43b9d-d40f-4e99-bb1c-a6795759ba2a.html
  10. KTBS — "Residents worry as single developer eyes Northwest Louisiana properties for possible data centers" — https://www.ktbs.com/news/residents-worry-as-single-developer-eyes-northwest-louisiana-properties-for-possible-data-centers/article_f4703867-d836-480e-b8c0-5954afbc6d89.html
  11. KSLA — "Caddo Parish commissioner seeking environmental and traffic studies for data center project in Blanchard" — https://www.ksla.com/2026/06/02/caddo-parish-commissioners-seek-environmental-studies-data-center-projects/
  12. KSLA — "Shreveport residents raise concerns over Amazon Web Services data center project" — https://www.ksla.com/2026/02/25/shreveport-residents-raise-concerns-over-amazon-web-services-data-center-project/
  13. Fox 8 Live / Louisiana Illuminator — "Amazon says it will limit water use, pay for power at $12 billion NW Louisiana data centers" — https://www.fox8live.com/2026/02/24/amazon-says-it-will-limit-water-use-pay-power-12-billion-nw-louisiana-data-centers/
  14. Louisiana Illuminator (via Magnolia Reporter) — same story — https://www.magnoliareporter.com/article_5760654c-5aac-4e89-8ca1-89b98e71d18a.html
  15. LED — "Amazon Selects Louisiana for $12 Billion Data Center Campuses" — https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/amazon-selects-louisiana-for-12-billion-data-center-campuses-in-major-u-s-expansion
  16. NOLA.com — "Why tech giants could reap massive tax breaks in Louisiana" — https://www.nola.com/news/data-center-meta-amazon-louisiana-tax-break/article_6ccd632e-f470-425a-ad8b-0fba3916bd4d.html
  17. Shreveport-Bossier Advocate — "What AEP's AI data center boom means for SWEPCO, Shreveport and Bossier" — https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/business/what-aeps-ai-data-center-boom-means-for-swepco-shreveport-and-bossier/article_6fb28e3c-d1de-4804-924a-c6958c411c9e.html
  18. The Hayride — "Regulators weighing new rules for data centers, major power users" — https://thehayride.com/2026/05/regulators-weighing-new-rules-for-data-centers-major-power-users/
  19. Alliance for Affordable Energy — "Louisiana Deserves Better Than Blank Checks for Data Centers" — https://www.all4energy.org/take-action/la-deserves-better-than-blank-checks-for-data-centers/
  20. The Center Square — "Shreveport taxpayers pay higher water and sewer bills to fulfill consent decree" — https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/article_29d69364-987e-11ef-a0ad-c3fa4ee62b47.html
  21. Clean Water Shreveport — About the Consent Decree — https://cleanwatershreveport.com/about/
  22. City of Shreveport Water & Sewer — Consent Decree — https://www.shreveportlawater.gov/202/Consent-Decree
  23. City of Shreveport — Citywide Boil Advisory news release (2026-03-02) — https://www.shreveportla.gov/DocumentCenter/View/30172/03022026---NEWS-RELEASE-Citywide-Boil-Advisory-Issued
  24. KTAL — "Shreveport voluntary boil advisory expanded citywide" — https://www.ktalnews.com/news/local-news/shreveport-voluntary-boil-advisory-issued-for-parts-of-shreveport/
  25. LDH — Boil Water Advisories — https://ldh.la.gov/bureau-of-engineering-services/boil-water-advisories
  26. Drought.gov — Caddo Parish conditions — https://www.drought.gov/states/louisiana/county/caddo
  27. U.S. Drought Monitor — Louisiana — https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?LA=
  28. Shreveport City Council — https://www.shreveportla.gov/201/City-Council
  29. Shreveport — Contact Council Member / roster — https://www.shreveportla.gov/3057/Contact-Council-Member
  30. Shreveport City Council Districts map — https://www.shreveportla.gov/202/City-Council-Districts
  31. Shreveport-Caddo MPC — contact — https://www.shreveportcaddompc.com/about-us/contact-the-mpc
  32. Shreveport-Caddo MPC — 2026 agendas & decisions — https://www.shreveportcaddompc.com/boards-commissions/the-planning-commission/mpc-meetings-deadlines-decisions
  33. Caddo Parish — Contact — https://caddo.gov/contact/
  34. SWEPCO — Media Contacts — https://www.swepco.com/company/news/media-contacts
  35. LPSC — Commissioner District 5 (Foster Campbell) — https://lpsc.louisiana.gov/District5
  36. Act 730 Louisiana Data Center Tax Exemption guide — https://louisianai.com/incentives/act-730

Lead source: resident reports on the Brockovich AI Data Center community map, then independently verified against public records. Research, not legal, financial, real-estate, or investment advice. Some resident-reported pins remain uncorroborated and are labeled as such above.