I own a house rental business near a future Meta AI data center. Construction workers make up most of our tenants.

Angel and Bryan Crawford opened a mobile home park in northeast Louisiana in 2025.

Angel Crawford Meta is building its largest data center to date in Richland Parish, Louisiana.

Angel Crawford and her husband own 18 rental properties in the area.

Crawford said RV and mobile home parks are booming due to the influx of workers.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angel Crawford, who owns 18 rental properties in northeastern Louisiana and runs a third-party website connecting tenants with property owners.

Construction for Meta's largest-ever AI data center has begun in Holly Ridge, an unincorporated community about 10 minutes away from her home in Delhi.

My husband and I have been in Delhi for four years.

We're originally from this area, but we've moved around because of our nursing careers.

I was a quality manager, and my husband was a director of case management.

We were empty nesters looking for something to do, so we started with real estate and rentals because they are very much needed in this area.

It's very rural here, so when there are fluctuating prices in the market, it doesn't really hit us because there are never enough houses for sale or rent.

In 2024, we started buying older houses that had been on the market for a long time or needed a lot of work.

We had a vision to create a mobile home park and already purchased some land when we heard about Meta's data center.

That's what pushed us to keep going forward.