Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May as a Sophomore at Glen Oaks High School in Baton Rouge in early 1978 (May graduated from Glen Oaks in 1980).
Phillip May stressing a point about Meta’s $10 billion investment in Louisiana at the meeting of the Baton Rouge Press Club of Monday, March 17, 2025.
On January 25, 2025, NOLA.com published this article outlining all that went on behind the scenes to attract Meta’s $10 billon AI investment in Louisiana.
The article really hammered home all the hard work and the incredible heavy lifting that took place behind the scenes to pull the Meta project off. The article further makes it clear that, though he didn’t seek the public recognition for it, Entergy Louisiana’s CEO, Phillip May, carried much of the water that had to be done to make the project a reality (especially in its very early stages).
May is a classmate of Sound Off Louisiana’s founder, Robert Burns, with May graduating from Glen Oaks High School in Baton Rouge one year ahead of Burns in 1980, while Burns graduated in 1981.
Let’s take a look at a few of the highlights of May’s presentation.
First, in the following brief clip, May explains how Gov. Landry and his team, through their hard work to procure the project, have provided Louisiana citizens with, “the opportunity over the next three to five years to forever change the economic trajectory of this State.” Let’s take a look:
3/17/25: May touts Gov. Landry and his team’s efforts to, “forever change who we are, what we do, and how this economy thrives.”
Next, let’s take a moment to focus in on May’s emphasis regarding Louisiana winning this Business Facilities Platinum Award for the first time in its history as a result of the Meta project:
3/17/25: May touts Louisiana winning the Facilities Platinum Award for the first time in its history.
When it came time for Q & A, Burns felt he had to pose one about the Deep Seek announcement, which prompted the single biggest market cap one-day loss in history when it posed the potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be produced at a fraction of the cost of what has been considered before the announcement to be possible. Let’s take a look at Burns’ question to his former classmate, and his classmate’s response:
3/17/25: Burns poses the question entailing the Deep Seek announcement to his classmate.
Now for the toughest part of this feature. Burns texted a couple of other Glen Oaks classmates to let them know that May was speaking today and that Burns would be posting a photo of May from the 1978 Glen Oaks yearbook. They replied back, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander! If you’re going to post his, you have to post yours!”
We can be good sports here at Sound Off Louisiana so, even at the risk of scaring off female viewers of the blog, here’s Burns’ photo taken from the same yearbook (1978) at which time Burns was a Freshman at Glen Oaks High School:
Glen Oaks High School yearbook photo of Robert Burns in 1978 when he was a Freshman at Glen Oaks High School.
In all seriousness, it was really fantastic to see a high school classmate and to be able to publish a feature outlining his incredible accomplishments, along with those of Gov. Jeff Landry and his team.
Gee, back-to-back favorable posts for Gov. Landry! We sure hope nobody in his office has a stroke!
Glen Oaks High School classmates Robert Burns (left – Class of 1981) and Phillip May, CEO of Entergy of Louisiana (right – Class of 1980) visit briefly before May addressed the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday, March 17, 2025.
CLICK HERE for May’s presentation to the Press Club in its entirety.
What does Mr. Entergy (electric bill scammer) think about Landry appointing a known mobster to the Louisiana State Police Commission? I’ll hang up and listen. Thanks for your hard work uncovering the truth. It seems the media is getting money from the state government like the feds were doing before D.O.G.E.
Well done, Robert