Data Center Registry
Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras)
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana · All 5 Cogent Communications sites
Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) is an operating data center in New Orleans, Louisiana (Orleans County), operated by Cogent Communications. The public record puts it at 0.75 MW operating.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Cogent Communications
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 650 Poydras St, New Orleans, Orleans County, LA
- Coordinates
- 29.9496, -90.0699 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 0.75 MW operating
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) in New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Notes on the record
Small telecom colocation/carrier-hotel site in the New Orleans CBD. Existence, operator and street address independently CONFIRMED 2026-09-10 against PeeringDB, the operator-maintained interconnection registry, which lists facility 12396 "Cogent New Orleans" at 650 Poydras St under Cogent Communications, Inc., the record no longer rests on an aggregator listing alone. The 0.75 MW figure remains aggregator-sourced (Baxtel) and is not corroborated by PeeringDB. Not identified as AI/hyperscale use in any source found.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Fogo Data Centers New Orleans · New Orleans · Fogo Solutionsunder 1 mile · Operating
- MS Solar Grid Data (New Orleans East) · New Orleans · MS Solar Grid Data8 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) data center in New Orleans?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) in New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) data center?
No lawsuit over Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) appears in the record we track as of September 10, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras), and how big is it?
Cogent Communications is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 0.75 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Cogent Communications New Orleans (650 Poydras)," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/cogent-650-poydras-new-orleans-la.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/cogent-650-poydras-new-orleans-la, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.New Orleans Data Centers & Colocation · Baxtel · retrieved September 10, 2026
- 2.OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: 650 Poydras Street, New Orleans · OpenStreetMap · retrieved September 10, 2026
- 3.PeeringDB facility record 12396 (New Orleans) · PeeringDB · retrieved September 10, 2026
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