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St Francisville Mill

Brownfield

St. Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana · Hood Container of Louisiana, LLC

Legacy capacity
45
MW

St Francisville Mill is a natural gas plant in St. Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, retired 1999-07-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 45 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.

Former use & capacity

Former usenatural gas plant
Site typeretired_plant
Existing capacity45 MW
Retirement date1999-07-01
EIA plant ID#10697

Grid hookup & remediation

Nearest substation0.1 mi
Operator address2105 HY 964, St. Francisville, LA, 70775
Why this site is datacenter-attractive: a natural gas plant of this scale leaves behind a high-capacity grid interconnection that a new load can re-use, frequently shaving years off the interconnection queue. Retired-plant sites also tend to be already zoned for heavy industrial use with established road, rail, and water infrastructure.

Site conditions & market — West Feliciana Parish

County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.

Market & workforce

Total employment (laborshed)3,341
Construction employment637
Land value$3,197/acre
Datacenter tax incentivesales_tax_exemption

Power economics & interconnection

Commercial power rate12.82¢/kWh
Industrial power rate10.84¢/kWh
Load growth (FERC-714)1.0%

Water & cooling

Water stressLow
Public water supply1.7 MGD
Industrial water use17.7 MGD
Cooling degree days2,700
Mean annual temp67°F

Hazard, flood & connectivity

FEMA risk index58.0 · Very High
Fiber providers2 · 71% served

County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.

Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites

A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near St Francisville Mill — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.

SiteFormer useLegacy MWDistanceCleanup status
Big Cajun 2coal plant7302.9 mi—
LaO Energy Systemsnatural gas plant71527.6 mi—
Plaquemine Operationsnatural gas plant10627.6 mi—
Formosa Plasticsnatural gas plant3816.7 mi—

Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.

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Nearby datacenter candidate sites

Scored candidate sites near St Francisville Mill, ranked by DC Readiness.

Candidate sites near St Francisville Mill
SiteTypeStateCountyVoltageCapacityQueue waitScore
UNKNOWN112075Substation-AdjacentLAWest Feliciana Parish500 kV1,000 MW2.8 yrs69.1
WEBRESubstation-AdjacentLAWest Baton Rouge Parish500 kV1,000 MW2.8 yrs65.1
FANCY POINTSubstation-AdjacentLAWest Feliciana Parish500 kV1,000 MW2.8 yrs64.7
OAK VILLASubstation-AdjacentLAEast Baton Rouge Parish230 kV300 MW2.8 yrs64.5
HAZELSubstation-AdjacentLAEast Baton Rouge Parish230 kV300 MW2.8 yrs64.4
UNKNOWN112497Substation-AdjacentLAEast Baton Rouge Parish230 kV300 MW2.8 yrs64.3
UNKNOWN111776Substation-AdjacentLAEast Baton Rouge Parish230 kV300 MW2.8 yrs63.9
TIGERSubstation-AdjacentLAWest Baton Rouge Parish230 kV300 MW2.8 yrs63.8

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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.

Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.

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