KEY TAKEAWAYS: Over 50,000 households and businesses in northern Louisiana remain without electricity Ouachita Parish accounts for about 33,000 Entergy customer outages Power restoration in most affected parishes expected by Jan. 31 Gov. Jeff Landry has requested a federal disaster declaration   More than 50,000 northern Louisiana households and businesses remained without power Jan. 29 following Winter Storm Fern with some customers now not expected to have electricity restored until Jan. 31. The bulk of those outages (50,206) are Entergy customers concentrated in northeastern Louisiana and the regional hub of Ouachita Parish, where about 33,000 customers remained without power Thursday morning. Entergy estimates most restoration for Ouachita to be complete Saturday, Jan. 31. Other Entergy parishes with at least 1,000 customer outages Thursday morning and their estimated restoration times include: Bienville (Thursday); Caldwell (Friday); East Carroll (Saturday); Jackson (Saturday); Madison (Saturday); Morehouse (Saturday); Richland (Saturday); West Carroll (Saturday); and Winn (Saturday). Of those parishes, Richland has the most outages with almost 3,000. Richland Parish is the location of the $27 billion Meta data center project. In northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto is the only parish with more than 1,000 outages. DeSoto is served by SWEPCO. Gov. Jeff Landry, who surveyed the northeastern Louisiana damage Tuesday, said he has requested a federal disaster declaration to help fund the recovery effort. Louisiana has confirmed eight storm-related deaths from Winter Storm Fern. Greg Hilburn covers state politics for the USA TODAY Network of Louisiana. Follow him on Twitter @GregHilburn1. This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: Louisiana power restoration delayed with more than 50,000 outages Reporting by Greg Hilburn, Shreveport Times / Shreveport Times USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect ...read more read less