Meta's Louisiana AI data center to cost $50B

💰 Meta's AI data center in north Louisiana will cost $50 billion, President Trump says. (Reuters)

• The facility, called Hyperion, will be about the size of Manhattan, Mark Zuckerberg says. (Bloomberg)

Bryan Vasquez, the 12-year-old boy with autism who went missing, died from blunt force trauma from alligators and drowning, the coroner says. (WDSU)

🦀 PeeWee's Crabcakes' future is uncertain after a fire at the Gentilly location. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)

🪷 The New Orleans Botanical Garden is competing in the viral water lily weigh-off this year. The winner will be announced today. (Instagram)

🗞️ So many Katrina stories. Phew. Some worth your consideration:

• Chris Rose's love letter to New Orleans (The Times-Picayune)
• The $140 billion failure we don't talk about (New York Times opinion)
• My Mother, New Orleans (The New Yorker)
• Where New Orleanians went after Katrina (Axios)
• 👋 Or, you can be like artist Jacq Francois, who is over it and making shirts.