If Jackson City Council President Bryan Grizzell has his way, it will be a loooong time before any data centers are built in Jackson - if they ever are.
The Councilman known for his anti-business stances placed this item on the agenda for today's meeting of the Jackson City Council:
Although the proposed ordinance is not available on the city's website, JJ was able to snag a copy. The highlights of the proposed ordinance are:
* The purpose is to protect the city's water and electrical infrastructure
* Ensure the land use is compatible with the community
* Prevent environmental racism
* Create regulations for data center development
* Moratorium good for 183 days but can be extended for another 183 days
* Data centers with an electrical load of 5 megawatts or less are exempt from ordinance.
No dats centers will be approved unless it is shown:
* There is no "adverse impact" on water supply
* No displacement of energy needs
* Noise mitigation plan
The ordinance further handcuffs data centers:
* A public hearing must be held
* There must be a "community benefits" agreement. Let the wetting of the beaks begin.
* A community impact statement.
Data centers would have to report water and energy consumption.
It is not surprising Grizzell is pushing such a moratorium. After all, this is the Councilman who fought repaving the roads around Paul Moak Honda after the dealership spent millions on remodeling.
Fortunately for Grizzell, it is doubtful any data centers will come to Jackson. There are few sites in Jackson that would not require some demolition. It is much cheaper to plow up some pasture, after all. This proposed ordinance is just more of the same: Jackson politicians thinking of ways to run off businesses.
50 comments:
Praise Greasy!!!
Environmental racism..... nice.
Why is there such an anti-business sentiment among Jacksonians, particularly black Jacksonians? I saw on a Facebook page called Polo's Perspectives a recent post about how dare a developer be approved by the City Council to build new apartments in Fondren rather than West and South Jackson. Do they not understand basics of tax revenues?
there's a reason all these datacenters are coming here and it isn't because they love MS. They've found a bunch of rubes who don't mind selling off their long term natural resource concerns for a dollar and some political clout today...
You are 100% correct. We're easy targets.
Speaking as a resident of a competitor county/city that has its act together, I highly endorse Mr. Grizzell's effort to prevent the City of Jackson and Jackson Public Schools from participating in historic ad valorem windfall. We will remain open for business while Jackson circles the bowl.
Don't worry Jackson, the data centers have found a friend over here in Brandon named Butch. Against overwhelming opposition, Butch has decided Brandon is the place for a data center and won't listen to you peasants who reside in his fiefdom. He'll pat you on your back, give you all the awe shucks talk he can, all the while talking AT you like you don't know as much as he does. Afterall, he was an instructor at the fire academy. You don't have to ask him how smart he is, he'll tell you. The "B" on the Brandon flag stands for Butch. That's all you need to know.
Data centers would be the best thing for JXN, especially the abandoned and blighted areas. Unfortunately, mindsets such as these make clearing forests more attractive.
Cue the doomsdayers and naysayers with an internet education and some free time on their hands to bemoan the rise of the datacenter as a dire threat to all of humanity as we know it. They are somewhat akin to a flat-earther in their blusteriness and naivete but do provide for some cheap entertainment and perhaps a chuckle at their expense.
What astounds me most is that anyone would want to put a data center in the Jackson city limits.
He's carrying water. How does he want his back scratched and who completes the performance?
234 new apartments in Fondren is a big mistake.
John Horhn should be livid. Seriously doubt there is a veto-proof Council majority supporting this grandstanding.
Thanks to Trump’s tariff debacle half of the data centers planned to open in the US this year will either be delayed or canceled altogether so this might be academic.
This is sorta like Grizzel telling the sun not to come up in the West. Jackson has a lot of incompetence, undependable infrastructure and DEI race imperatives that do not attract business investment in the first place. To forbid Data Centers in Jackson is to take advance credit for a foregone conclusion.
Australia has banned all data centers. The State of Maine is considering a moratorium on them. Their concerns are not environmental racism, etc., but rather, depletion of natural resources and very little return on allowing these behemoths to be built. You rubes actually believe the marketing propaganda about it being a good "investment" for the state, job creation and the rest of the hogwash peddled to you.
Ben, way to use big words to say absolutely nothing. Do you have any facts to deal with aquifer drawdown at a rate that exceeds refill (1-5 million gallons a day per data center at AWS datacenter scale, "only" 500,000/day for the really small ones), power rate increases, noise, heat dissipation, etc.
Please define "environmental racism" to those of us that don't understand this code word !
Brian Grizzell is an absolute clown show.
Are tariffs still a talking point? I thought we were past all that on to something else.
People against data centers….the world will end because of data centers. People need to relax a little. If data centers in Jackson brought more revenue into the state and city, would that be a really bad thing? Without tax revenue the city of Jackson will not survive.
10:51 his on a solid point. Some of us in tech have done vast amounts of research on the undesirable by-products of these massive datacenters. People call themselves debunking the increase in energy costs to the common resident, but I assure you, they will be substantial. That isn't the only caveat, but it's a big one.
$23 MILLION in the red because the City Council allowed AnTARD to walk all over their financial oversight responsibilities. Now, suddenly, this clown Grizzell believes he possesses the expertise to pick and choose which investments his pauper craphole city will consider going forward. Agree with the poster above, Mayor Horhn should be pissed off for nothing else but the message this sends.
It's not anti-bidness. It's anti-jobs. They want nice apartment to tear the shit out of...not jobs. Name the last three industrial prospects to visit Jackson. OK, that was too tough...Just name ONE!
Does the city even employ an industrial developer or any other occupational title that reflects those duties? Please don't say it's Stokes.
Dude is dumb AF. Drive up the road and see AWS. You can’t even hear the generators when you stand next to them. The data centers now operate on closed circuit water cooling, so no water table draw down. This is as stupid as the people who said that the new Entergy natural gas fired station will cause cancer clusters when they’ve had a gas fired station in their backyard for 25 years with no cancer clusters. But, hey, the adjacent cities will gladly take the data center business and the tax revenues, and spend it wisely. Not that any legitimate data center company would consider Jackson anyway.
When the next global pandemic hits, and it is real this time. And are not only locked down to our homes but isolated to separate rooms in our home. You all will be glad the datacenters are there to operate the state surveillance robots and service robots and automation delivering food and packages. Because you will not be allowed to leave your rooms! Only the robots can!
Is the irony lost on anyone that these posts are using AI slop images?
Tater has been bloviating that a data center will employ more than 1,000 people. Try again. Typically they employ around 35 people. Google it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/foreign-cash-is-sabotaging-america-in-ai-race-against-china/ar-AA212jlR
So I’m guessing that all those opposing data centers are also opposed to the internet.
Information on the web grows every day. To have it all available for the world to download takes storage capacity and electricity. And water to cool it down.
It’s truly the mindset of “yes I want these things but not in my backyard.”
These things are going to be built somewhere and blighted areas in West Jackson would work, if not for the pot hole roads, copper theft, water issues, drive by shooting, unskilled workforce, food deserts, chop shops, twerking contests, polluted Pearl River, drag racing, etc, etc, etc.
If you mention them, they will come.
His palms are a little dry.
11:51, homie, no one is falling for that scam again. It really didn't slow me down much last time, and it's damn sure not going to next time. This is Mississippi, not Minnesota.
Grizzell is sharp as a marble.
According to Grizzell data centers are racist.
Australia and Maine.... tells a lot.
How often do you tell the truth? There's no nationwide ban on data centers in Australia.
https://www.greenpeace.org.au/news/australia-must-not-follow-dystopian-us-style-data-centre-path-of-big-tech-overreach-and-emissions-blow-out/
Data centers just across County Line Rd. May as well be in Jackson.
How would one make a datacenter bullet proof if it was located in Jackson?
Where did you find this "conspiracy theory?" On Tiktok from your parent's basement?
1,000% correct. Right Tater?
How many full-time guards and gun towers would be required to prevent copper wire and other thefts?
AWS CEO Matt Garmin, thanks for checking in.
No set-asides, palm grease, and DEI hiring.
AOC, thanks for checking in.
@2:24 PM
I am guessing you never watch any of the presentations at Davos, do you?
An example Environmental Racism is when yall whites build like a toxic waste dump in Black neighborhoods instead of in yall neighborhoods. Cuz yall evil and jealous with yall tiny little pink peckers and thank it’s funny to give Black folks cancer.
Oh man you clearly haven’t seen any of the AI powered weapon drones. You will submit and you will be behave.
Heaven forbid any improvement in Jacktown...it would put the guys that make and install burglar bars out of business!
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-position-taken-without-using-troops-just-robots-drones-2026-4?op=1
This is how a data center will protect itself. By the way, new Jackson police chief, you better embrace this or it will replace you.
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