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Mississippi’s data center boom and growing national opposition

Mississippi’s data center boom and growing national opposition

News Clipthe mississippi independent·Southaven, MS·1/16/2026

This story covers the data center boom in Mississippi, including a $10 billion Compass data center project and a $20 billion xAI data center project by Elon Musk's company. It highlights the generous incentive structure in Mississippi that offers data centers long-term tax breaks and subsidies, which has led to criticism of the state's economic development deals.

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In the same two-week stretch that Mississippi’s $10 billion Compass data center project was crowned both the worst and the best economic development deal of 2025, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, would build a $20 billion data center campus in Southav