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Data Center Watch Report · ZIP 71129

Shreveport

Caddo Parish

None found / resident-reportedZIP 60.4% Blackpop 12,395

No data center sited inside this ZIP as of 2026-08-02 — but it directly borders the approved west Shreveport Amazon/STACK campus in neighboring ZIP 71119.

Researched: 2026-08-02 · Lead source: Brockovich AI Data Center community map (1 resident report, 2026-05-29) · ZIP demographics: 60.4% Black, pop 12,395 (Census ACS 2023) · County: Caddo Parish (roughly 49% Black — verify at census.gov/quickfacts/caddoparishlouisiana) Status: No data center sited inside this ZIP as of 2026-08-02 — but it directly borders the approved west Shreveport Amazon/STACK campus in neighboring ZIP 71119.

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

0. Snapshot

ZIP 71129 is southwest Shreveport — the residential and light-industrial area south and west of the Greenwood Road / I-20 corridor, running toward the town of Greenwood and the Texas line. The single resident pin here is best understood as a next-door pin: the confirmed Amazon/STACK data center is at 7340 Greenwood Road, which the U.S. Postal Service and property records place in ZIP 71119, immediately adjacent. 71129 shares the same council, the same parish, and — critically — the same City of Shreveport water system as the campus.

  • In-ZIP facility: None found as of 2026-08-02. No approved, proposed, or announced data center has a confirmed address inside 71129.
  • Next door: the 2.8 million-square-foot Amazon/STACK data center at 7340 Greenwood Road (ZIP 71119), approved by the Shreveport City Council on 2026-12-18 and cleared by a judge in April 2026, with a permitted draw of up to 7.5 million gallons of water per day. (710 KEEL; KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Why 71129 still matters: the Greenwood Road/Bert Kouns industrial corridor straddles the 71119/71129 line, a Denver entity (SAC III Acquisition Co., LLC) quietly assembled 255 acres along it, and the flooding, traffic, air, and water-pressure effects of a campus this size do not stop at a ZIP boundary. (KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)

1. The Facility & Where It Sits

  • Inside 71129: no data-center site with a confirmed 71129 address was found. The relevant facility is the west Shreveport Amazon/STACK campus at 7340 Greenwood Road, in the Resilient Technology Park (owned by Franks Investment Co. LLC; developed by STACK Infrastructure for AWS). Property records place that address in ZIP 71119. (zoomprospector, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • The corridor is shared. Greenwood Road runs southwest out of the city; the 7340 site sits on the north side near Bert Kouns and I-20, with 71129's residential blocks fanning out to the south and west. If you live in 71129 off Greenwood Road, Pines Road, or Bert Kouns, the campus is a short distance up the road — close enough that traffic and stormwater are shared concerns.
  • Scale of the neighbor: seven two-story data-center buildings, a ~104,000 sq ft office building, and an on-site substation across ~313 acres. (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, accessed 2026-08-02)

The border — where it sits relative to people

  • 71129 is a majority-Black, 60.4% Black ZIP. It is on the same side of town as the campus. The Caddo data-center pattern — heavy industrial load landing on the Black, working-class west/southwest side while the tax headlines run parish- and state-wide — applies to 71129 just as it does to 71119.
  • Flooding is a live, on-the-record concern for this corridor. Caddo Commissioner Ken Epperson warned that the Greenwood Road data center could require significant tree removal and worsen flooding in a nearby neighborhood that already struggles with drainage. Southwest Shreveport's low-lying blocks are exactly the kind of area that concern points to. (KSLA, accessed 2026-08-02)

2. Public Hearings & Notices

The decisions affecting 71129 residents are being made at the same tables that approved the neighboring campus:

DateBodyAction
Fall 2025Shreveport-Caddo MPCDeadlocked 4–4 on the 7340 Greenwood Rd site plan (functionally a denial) (Shreveport-Bossier Advocate)
2025-12-18Shreveport City CouncilApproved the special-exception use permit, overturning the MPC (710 KEEL)
2026-04Caddo District Court (Judge Ramon Lafitte)Dismissed residents' judicial-review challenge; appeal possible (KTBS)
2026 (ongoing)Caddo Parish CommissionCommissioner Epperson's resolutions on environmental/traffic studies and rainwater capture for data centers (KTBS — rainwater resolution)

Upcoming: watch the MPC (first Wednesday monthly) for site-plan amendments and any new applications along the Greenwood/Bert Kouns corridor that could fall inside 71129, and the Council for building permits.

3. Power

  • Serving utility: SWEPCO (AEP), headquartered in Shreveport. Amazon says it will pay 100% of its electricity costs and fund substations and transmission; SWEPCO's president said no data-center costs will be passed to customers and no dedicated power plant will be built. The MW load and cost-allocation math will be filed later with the LPSC. (Fox 8 / Louisiana Illuminator; Shreveport-Bossier Advocate — SWEPCO, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • State rulemaking: the LPSC is developing large-load tariff rules so major users pay for their own grid upgrades; the Alliance for Affordable Energy is pushing to keep those costs off residential bills. (The Hayride; Alliance for Affordable Energy, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • On-site generation: the Greenwood Rd plan uses grid power plus an on-site substation. No gas-turbine bridge generation has been reported. (710 KEEL)

4. Water & Drought

  • Same system, same strain. 71129 is on the City of Shreveport water and sewer system, which is under a federal consent decree for sewer overflows (compliance schedule to 2026-11-12), has run hundreds of millions over budget, and produced a citywide boil advisory on 2026-03-02 after a transmission-main break. The neighboring campus is permitted for up to 7.5 MGD. (The Center Square; City of Shreveport boil advisory 2026-03-02, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Amazon's pledge: cooling water used <~13% of the year, an ~80%-more-efficient design, and $400M toward Caddo-Bossier public water systems. Whether those upgrades reach the southwest-Shreveport distribution lines is the question for 71129. (Fox 8, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • Drought: Caddo Parish has ranged from normal to abnormally dry (D0) in 2026; check the live map. (Drought.gov — Caddo; U.S. Drought Monitor, accessed 2026-08-02)

5. Population & Who Lives Here

  • ZIP 71129: 60.4% Black; population 12,395 (Census ACS 2023). Southwest Shreveport, Greenwood Road toward the Texas line.
  • Caddo Parish overall roughly 49% Black. 71129 and 71119 together form the majority-Black western edge that is absorbing the region's first hyperscale campus.
  • Documented vulnerability: the corridor's flooding/drainage problems (cited by Commissioner Epperson) and reliance on a consent-decree water system. ZIP-specific poverty and health figures were Not found in a single reachable source as of 2026-08-02 — see census.gov/quickfacts.

6. Money — Abatements, Incentives, Jobs

  • The $12B/540-jobs/1,500-construction figures are program-wide across all three AWS campuses, not specific to 71129. (LED, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • ITEP: Louisiana's Industrial Tax Exemption Program now needs local sign-off (parish, school board, sheriff, city); reporting indicates deals could exempt ~60% of local property taxes if hiring targets are met. A signed ITEP value/term for the Greenwood Rd campus was Not found as of 2026-08-02. Request it from Caddo Parish and the Caddo Parish School Board — 71129 residents' school and parish tax base are directly affected. (NOLA.com, accessed 2026-08-02)

7. Community Reaction & News Coverage

  • Opposition to the neighboring campus was led by Mooringsport Mayor Tyler Gordon and two residents (petitioners), with utility- and water-cost concerns voiced by residents Connor Ward and Abby Whittington and by Logan Burke of the Alliance for Affordable Energy. (KSLA; KTBS, accessed 2026-08-02)
  • A one-report ZIP is still a real finding. That only one resident flagged 71129 does not mean it is unaffected — it means fewer neighbors are watching a campus that sits just up Greenwood Road and pulls from the same water system.
  • Local newsrooms: Shreveport Times, KSLA, KTBS, KTAL/KMSS, 710 KEEL, Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, The Center Square, Louisiana Illuminator.

8. Find Out For Yourself

City

Shreveport City Council — Government Plaza, 505 Travis St, 1st Floor Chamber, Shreveport, LA 71101; meetings 3:00 p.m. (2nd & 4th Tuesdays). Confirm your district on the Council Districts map. Roster:

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

Planning & Zoning

Shreveport-Caddo MPC — 505 Travis St, Suite 440, Shreveport, LA 71101 · (318) 673-6498 · meetings 1st Wednesday monthly, 3:00 p.m. Agendas: shreveportcaddompc.com. Ask staff to flag any new data-center application with a 71129 address.

County

Caddo Parish Commission — 505 Travis St, Suite 110 · Clerk Jeff Everson, (318) 226-6596 · caddo.gov. Ask for Commissioner Ken Epperson's flooding/environmental-study resolutions.

Water, utility, regulator

  • City of Shreveport Water & Sewer — shreveportlawater.gov. Ask which pressure zone serves your street and how the 7.5-MGD draw is modeled.
  • SWEPCO — media/public line 318-673-3060.
  • LPSC District 5 (Foster Campbell) — 124 South Grand St, Monroe, LA 71201 · (318) 362-3318 · foster.campbell@la.gov. (LPSC District 5, accessed 2026-08-02)

Six questions worth asking

  1. To the MPC: Is any data-center site plan pending with a 71129 address along Greenwood Road, Pines Road, or Bert Kouns?
  2. To Water & Sewerage: Which pressure zone am I in, and how does the neighboring 7.5-MGD data center affect it during a main break or drought?
  3. To Commissioner Epperson's office: Which specific neighborhood's drainage was he warning about, and did the approved site plan add detention to protect it?
  4. To your Council member: Was the developer's water-and-sewer agreement signed, and can I read it?
  5. To Caddo Parish / School Board: What ITEP exemption was granted, and how much parish and school revenue is deferred?
  6. To SWEPCO / LPSC: What is the campus MW load and who pays for the grid upgrades?

9. If You're Thinking About Moving Here

Neutral read:

  • You'd be next door to a hyperscale campus, not on top of it. The confirmed data center is up Greenwood Road in 71119. That is close enough that traffic, stormwater, and water-pressure effects are shared, but the buildings themselves are not in 71129.
  • Water is the shared risk. Same City of Shreveport system, same consent decree, same March 2026 citywide boil advisory, with a 7.5-MGD neighbor.
  • Flooding. A commissioner has warned on the record about increased flooding near the campus. Southwest Shreveport has low-lying blocks; ask about your street specifically.
  • Land pressure. A single developer assembled 255+ acres along this corridor before the AWS deal was public. Expect continued interest in industrial-adjacent parcels.
  • Unresolved: whether the campus draws new residential development or industrial encroachment toward 71129; the undisclosed MW load; and any ITEP tax deal.

Practical step: call the MPC to ask whether anything is pending in 71129, and Water & Sewerage about your pressure zone.

10. Sources

All accessed 2026-08-02.

  1. zoomprospector — 7340 Greenwood Road property record (places address in ZIP 71119) — https://properties.zoomprospector.com/aep/property/7340-Greenwood-Road-Shreveport-Louisiana/2437FF40-298C-476C-850C-97902A3DC939
  2. 710 KEEL — "Shreveport City Council Greenlights Major Data Center on Greenwood Road" — https://710keel.com/shreveport-data-center-approval/
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. KTBS — "Residents worry as single developer eyes Northwest Louisiana properties" — 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
  6. 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/
  7. KTBS — "Caddo resolution would encourage data centers to collect rainwater" — https://www.ktbs.com/news/caddo-resolution-would-encourage-data-centers-to-collect-rainwater/article_d23eb046-5a47-45f0-8edd-13ae739b044c.html
  8. 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/
  9. Fox 8 Live / Louisiana Illuminator — "Amazon says it will limit water use, pay for power" — https://www.fox8live.com/2026/02/24/amazon-says-it-will-limit-water-use-pay-power-12-billion-nw-louisiana-data-centers/
  10. Shreveport-Bossier Advocate — "What AEP's AI data center boom means for SWEPCO" — https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/business/what-aeps-ai-data-center-boom-means-for-swepco-shreveport-and-bossier/article_6fb28e3c-d1de-4804-924a-c6958c411c9e.html
  11. 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/
  12. 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/
  13. 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
  14. City of Shreveport — Citywide Boil Advisory (2026-03-02) — https://www.shreveportla.gov/DocumentCenter/View/30172/03022026---NEWS-RELEASE-Citywide-Boil-Advisory-Issued
  15. Drought.gov — Caddo Parish — https://www.drought.gov/states/louisiana/county/caddo
  16. U.S. Drought Monitor — Louisiana — https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?LA=
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Shreveport City Council — Contact / roster — https://www.shreveportla.gov/3057/Contact-Council-Member
  20. Shreveport City Council Districts map — https://www.shreveportla.gov/202/City-Council-Districts
  21. Shreveport-Caddo MPC — 2026 agendas & decisions — https://www.shreveportcaddompc.com/boards-commissions/the-planning-commission/mpc-meetings-deadlines-decisions
  22. Caddo Parish — Contact — https://caddo.gov/contact/
  23. City of Shreveport Water & Sewer — Consent Decree — https://www.shreveportlawater.gov/202/Consent-Decree
  24. LPSC — Commissioner District 5 (Foster Campbell) — https://lpsc.louisiana.gov/District5

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.