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AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses

AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses is a tracked AI data center campus in Mississippi, Canton. AWS committed in January 2024 to at least $10 billion (later scaled up in company statements toward $25 billion) to build hyperscale data center campuses in Madison County, Mississippi, across the Madison County Mega Sit

Under construction · Amazon Web Services · Private land · MISO · Canton, Mississippi, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced
not recorded
Contracted
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Promised online: 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by AWS / Mississippi Development Authority (source).

AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses capacity claims
Source
Under construction0.25 GW2025-06-01claimedtracker

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Amazon Web Services

Developer

United States

Location

MISO

Grid

private land

Land

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Statewide investment (company)
Amazon says its total planned investment in Mississippi data centers has reached $25 billion, with plans to create 2,000 high-skilled jobs across Mississippi data center operations, including an additional $11 billion in Madison County and $1 billion in Hinds County (former Delphi plant) after an earlier Warren County commitment (About Amazon)
Madison County origin (company)
Amazon says two years earlier it broke ground on its first data center campus in Madison County, then the largest capital investment in Mississippi history, now expanded under the statewide $25 billion plan (About Amazon)
Entergy / grid (company)
Amazon says it works with Entergy Mississippi to pay 100% of costs for new data center campuses and enable Superpower Mississippi with $300 million in grid improvements at no cost to existing ratepayers, citing Fair Share Plus customer savings over $2 billion (About Amazon)
Renewables / water (company)
Company cites five renewable projects enabling 616 MW of new carbon-free energy in Mississippi, outside-air cooling 91% of the year, and a Canton transition to 100% recycled wastewater for cooling by 2027 (about 83 million gallons reused annually) (About Amazon)
Initial $10B announcement (state / press)
Mississippi Development Authority and DCD covered the earlier Jan 2024 AWS commitment of at least $10 billion for Madison County hyperscale campuses near Canton (and later Ridgeland), later scaled in company statements toward $25 billion statewide (Mississippi Development Authority; Data Center Dynamics)

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The story of AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses
Announced capex
$25B
Jobs
1,000 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per job
$25M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterMississippi(27)

The deal

developer
Amazon Web Services · Owner and operator
operator
Amazon Web Services
utility
Entergy Mississippi · Grid power via new 300MW substation; 650MW renewable deal with Amazon
grid operator
MISO

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
MISO
Interconnection
Water
Transitioning to recycled/treated wastewater cooling by 2027; $215M state loan funded wastewater treatment upgrades

Entergy Mississippi 300MW substation, 0.30 GW grid, Energized. New substation to serve Madison County data centers

Amazon-Entergy 616MW carbon-free portfolio (5 solar/wind projects), 0.62 GW solar, Financed. 616MW new carbon-free energy from five renewable projects (~152,000 homes)

The MISO grid demand right now: 76.5 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-04 02:00).

County water status: Moderate drought (D1) in Madison County, week of 2026-09-29 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses sits on private land in Mississippi, Canton. It connects to the MISO grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Total planned Mississippi investment
$25B. Statewide (Madison, Warren, Hinds counties) company filing
Additional Madison County expansion
$11B journalist report
State loan for wastewater treatment infrastructure
$215M. MS state loan for cooling-water/wastewater upgrades journalist report
AWS announced Madison County investment
$10B. Company later signaled scaling toward ~$25B press release

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Construction jobs
6,000-7,000 construction workers for the twin campuses source
Permanent jobs
At least 1,000 direct jobs source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    grid_operator: MISO
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

9876c0be-f7b0-4093-a440-5969b60ca565 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses?
AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Canton. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses?
Amazon Web Services is recorded as a party to AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses on the DEPLOY registry.
Is AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/aws-madison-county-mississippi

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