After the past few weeks, it seems there is just not much going on anymore. Life is back to as normal, I guess, as it gets. Ballgames are still being played. Football and softball practice have begun. Kids are going to summer camp. And the rest of us are just trying to work and fight the heat.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced on Monday a major data center expansion in Richland Parish that he said positions Louisiana to lean into the “next industrial revolution.” “The next generation of economic growth will not simply be measured in barrels of oil or tons of steel,” Landry said at the Baton Rouge announcement of the expansion of the Meta data center in rural, northeast Louisiana.