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The company has agreements for several notable large load projects with Google and Meta and expects substantial load growth from commercial and industrial customers through 2029.

Entergy is a vertically-integrated electric utility with five operating companies in four states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Its weather-adjusted retail sales rose 4.4% compared to last year. Profit increased from $645 million in the third quarter of 2024 to $694 million in the third quarter of 2025. In 2024, commercial and industrial customers made up 69% of Entergy’s sales, which were concentrated in Louisiana.

The company has agreements for several notable large load projects with Google and Meta. In general, it expects substantial load growth from commercial and industrial customers through 2029, though not the breakneck pace utilities like Dominion Energy expect in data center hotspots such as northern Virginia.

In its third-quarter investor update, Entergy said its data center customer pipeline increased 2 GW from the previous quarter to land in the 7 GW to 12 GW range. Also in the quarter, Energy secured 4.5 GW of power generation equipment to serve new load expected to come online this decade.

In August, the Louisiana Public Service Commission approved the generation and transmission resources needed to support Meta’s planned 2-GW campus in northeastern Louisiana. Those include three combined-cycle gas plants with combined nameplate capacity of about 2.2 GW.

As part of the same proceeding, the commission also authorized Entergy to procure up to 1.5 GW of solar resources for the project.

Entergy executives said Wednesday that the Meta agreement and additional expected load growth are reflected in the utility’s five-year capital plan, which lays out $41 billion in estimated spending through 2029.

Entergy has also submitted an application to the Arkansas Public Service Commission for the Cypress Solar project, a 600-MW solar / 350-MW battery energy storage project backed by Google.

The Cypress Solar project would power a 1,000-acre Google data center campus in West Memphis, Arkansas. Google will cover the “full energy costs” of the campus, the Arkansas Economic Development Corporation said on Oct. 2.