For the 19th consecutive year, Site Selection magazine has named Entergy a Top Utility in economic development. 

The communities we serve in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas continue to attract some of the nation’s most competitive and power‑intensive industries. In 2025, Entergy helped secure more than $83 million in capital investments and create approximately 7,560 new direct jobs. New and expanding facilities span advanced manufacturing, clean energy production and large‑scale industrial development, further strengthening the Gulf South region’s position as a premier location for business growth. 

As industrial and data‑intensive demand grows nationwide, Entergy’s Fair Share Plus framework ensures economic development benefits customers across our region. Under Fair Share Plus, large data centers pay the full incremental cost to serve their facilities — along with shared system-wide costs — helping maintain affordability, strengthen reliability and support community benefit programs. Fair Share Plus also reinforces system resilience in areas without current data‑center development, ensuring customers across all regions benefit from responsible, customer‑protective growth. 

Customer investments 

Customer‑driven investments across our region in 2025 reflect the significant scale and readiness work underway to support long‑term economic growth. This includes significant grid‑modernization upgrades, expanded certified and shovel‑ready sites, community investments that support education and workforce readiness and increased technical training and volunteer engagement. Together, these efforts demonstrate the breadth of initiatives helping prepare our communities for future industrial growth and ensure customers benefit from stronger infrastructure and long-term economic opportunities.  

Economic development resources 

Entergy provides companies with access to essential information needed to locate, expand and promote their business within our four-state region. In addition, we provide companies with services in site selection, project management, large projects and contracts. 

Learn how we power business at GoEntergy.com. Our advanced site-selection website, BuildingsAndSites.com, features more than 1,000 site listings across our four-state region. 

Driving future growth

Entergy continues to play a key role in advancing community competitiveness and preparing the region for long-term growth. This includes significant investments to strengthen reliability, modernize infrastructure and support customer demand. It also includes ongoing clean energy development like solar and renewables. 

These commitments reflect Entergy’s customer-focused strategy: balancing affordability, reliability and innovation while supporting job creation, economic vitality and community resilience across the Gulf South region.