Data center project · Madison County, Mississippi
Amazon Web Services Madison County data centers
Under construction · AWS's $10B-plus data center buildout in Madison County, backed by a 2024 special-session incentive law. Also known as: Project Atlas.
- Status
- Under construction · as of July 29, 2026
- Location
- Madison County (Canton area) · Madison County
- Status note
- Five data centers to begin fee-in-lieu payments in 2027; a separate AWS site in Clinton (Hinds Co.) opened June 9, 2026.
- Power
- Not reported
Not found - Investment
- $10B (2024), plus a later announced $15B
- Developer and team
- Amazon Web Services
- End user
- AWS
- Utility
- Entergy Mississippi
- Incentives
- S.B. 2001 (2024 special session): $44M appropriations, $215M county loan, permanent equipment sales tax exemption; Madison County fee-in-lieu tied to benchmarks of 700 jobs and $10B invested
- Evidence
- News reports; primary records not yet obtained
- Size class
- Under 50 MW (outside main scope; kept for completeness)
Updates, newest first
- Jan. 25, 2024 Legislature passed the AWS incentive package in a special session. (Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Jan. 26, 2024; Mississippi Today, July 29, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
- Brief entry; MW and the status of individual buildings were not checked. Coordinates are approximate.
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