Meta's Richland Parish data center investment delivered $50,000 teacher bonuses and transformed a declining Louisiana community—revealing how hyperscale infrastructure drives tangible economic revival while countering misinformation campaigns and advancing workforce development across America's rust belt. Meta's Richland Parish data center generated a 260% spike in sales tax collections, enabling teachers to receive $45,000-$50,000 annual bonuses by enabling local governments to fund education directly from tax surplus. The America Workforce Academy trained 250 workers in four months with 90% retention, proving paid fast-track certification removes the paycheck-to-paycheck barrier that prevents workers from accessing $100K-$120K trades jobs. Meta's new teen safety agreement with 52 bipartisan state attorneys general sets industry standards: users under 18 limited to one hour daily with automatic app shutdown at night and zero school-day notifications. Adversaries may be amplifying anti-data-center misinformation to slow U.S. AI infrastructure development, according to intelligence committee leadership, making domestic facility deployment a national security imperative.