Amid an ongoing power struggle between state Republicans and New Orleans Democrats, Gov. Jeff Landry said New Orleans is no longer as important to Louisiana’s economic success as it has been in the past.
“Used to be, the saying was, ‘Where goes New Orleans, where goes the state.’ Let me tell you what happened today. That has changed, ” Landry said Monday after a press conference announcing the expansion of an enormous Meta data center project in northeast Louisiana.
“Where goes Louisiana will determine the fate of New Orleans, okay?” the GOP governor said.
Landry’s remarks about New Orleans – the largest Democratic stronghold in Republican Louisiana – come after almost two weeks of feuding between the city’s leaders, the governor and Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill, Landry’s closest political ally.
A New Orleans grand jury indicted Murrill shortly before the July 4 holiday over allegations of malfeasance in office and intimidation of New Orleans elected officials.
Pretty Sure New Orleans is the only reason Louisiana still exists…
No. Louisiana resident here, N.O. Is a shithole and will be washed away sooner rather than later.
w/o New Orleans Louisiana is just a second-rate Mississippi.
Mississippi is licking their chops at the prospect of finally not being the state the rest of the south uses to point out “we ain’t THAT bad”.
It is that with or without it! New Orleans smells like piss and shit and if you walk in the French quarter you are quite literally walking in piss and vomit. 🤮
It’s still the only place in the entire state without fascists in charge.
Blue cities are were fascists dump all their shit therefore anyone who sees these places shithole, we can assume is a tool for fascists.
I’m not saying it isn’t, but it’s the only thing that keep money flowing in to the state… There is literally nothing else worth spending money on there.
Well, if you ever want authentic Cajun food, that’s NOT located in New Orleans…that’s in Lafayette.
Cajun food is good as long as you don’t ask too many questions about what’s in the pot. ;-)
Very true! Lol
I remember eating at some little hole in the wall at the foot of the Ponchatrain levy ordered some gumbo…and while we’re waiting I hear some lady in the back banging on what sounded like a pot lid yelling (in a distinctly creole accent) “Get back in there!”
pretty sure the fresh lobster was trying to escape…
Food was amazing though. ;-)
He believes the new Digital Cancer alley he’s creating via a $50B Meta Data center means no longer having to rely on New Orleans. Not an unreasonable scheme.
But the success vs becoming a $50B hole in the ground seems to depend in large part on the ability to provide better data for better AI training and then sell that data to other corporations who then sell those products to the public.
Which depends on being able to continue to further exploit people and communities (such as New Orleans) in the form of harvesting data for the data center to sell.
So if people in communities (such as New Orleans or anywhere in LA) were to say, idk “fuck you pay me” instead of allowing their data to be exploited, it could create quite a pickle in terms of the state no longer needing to depend on money generated by New Orleans for its own economic success…
There is a large petrochem refining and oil and gas business base here. New Orleans certainly survives on tourism but the rest of the state does not.
Sure let the city keep all their money and see how the rest of the state does.
I spent about 6 months in New Orleans about 20 years ago… Out at Mischoud as part of a datacenter build-out… 3 months before Katrina hit. Talk about flushing a lot of hard work away…datacenters don’t do well when they’re under 3’ of water…
They rebuilt in Philidelphia. ;-)