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More of this data center BS. It may be 2200 jobs, but it also may be, and likely is selling our soul to the devil. I am from Florence and I am ashamed to say Reeves is too. I wish that dude would start telling people he was from Richland or Star.

I'll believe it when I see it.

It sure would be nice if Tater would spread around all those jobs he's creating. Southwest Mississippi could make good use of a thousand or so.

Are these 2200 construction jobs for the initial project? Once the job is complete, how many of these 2200 jobs will remain?

Do some quick research on the company and then you will know if these are real permanent jobs or the data center fluff.

These commentors must not be reading even the quick summary. This is not a data center. This is a company that makes data center support equipment - like server racks, power distribution equipment, cooling systems, networking & storage stuff, etc. The jobs will be continuous and not just construction jobs.

@12:46 IIRC the gov ventured to Gloster for a ribbon cutting for a new sawmill a few years back, and his remarks were something along the lines of I forgot that there were towns back here.

I don't think anyone here has enough data to provide a meaningful critique of the jobs creation vs. tax breaks, etc. But it seems some jobs are better than none. And using an empty facility seems like a positive.

Read the article people! This IS NOT A DATA CENTER.

"Southwest Mississippi could make good use of a thousand or so."

Southwest Mississippi first needs a workforce an employer would be willing to invest in ...

At least 50 people with permanent jobs doing utility cutoffs for those that can't pay their bills.

Tater Tot forgot to mention the 2,600 jobs lost when Hood Industries in South Mississippi shut down this week, resulting in a net loss of 400 jobs.

1246, get a clue about how these deals come about. Tater doesn't decide where they are going, or how many will be there. That's the company's decision, based on what is economically feasible and profitable for them.

This company wants to be in Marshall County, not SW MS, if for no other reason than that's close to where their customer base is, and it has easy transportation for its products (close to MEM, and FEX HQ possibly).

Tater and his team do help put together a deal, and promote the options available in the state - but the company putting their money up is the deciding vote.

Now, you want to go back to the good old days with Musgrove working with his partner Speaker Billy McCoy and his NE mafia crew - they decided that they knew better than actual real operating businesses and made a location decision for their envisioned Beef Plant. NE MS felt they 'deserved' something with Nissan going to Canton so they conjured up a business (even though the smart folks who actually know how to put together business plans and feasibility studies said it wouldn't work) and created 1) the company; 2) the location; and 3) the financing from your and my tax dollars.

A collasial failure, as we all know. Because there wasn't a viable company, the only money at risk was the state's, and the location decision was a political one, not a business oriented one.

Thankfully the state gave that concept up when they gave up Musgrove and his ilk (including the LWT Board's leadership). While your desire for something in your corner of the state is certainly a reasonable want, it takes more than that for a business to invest their dollars there - same applies to the delta region. Build up the local workforce, provide a quality site, and then make an argument for beneficial localtional decisions by corporate interests

The jobs will be continuous...

Just like the Worldcom and Enviva jobs were permanent jobs...

The question is "how fast can our product get to Memphis?" The further away you get from Memphis Metro, the more issues you find not only with quality of workforce, but more importantly speed to market.

I don't believe there's another area of Mississippi that can compete with being next door to one of the largest cargo airports in the world with one of the largest freight shippers in the world. Trucking a product 30 minutes from Desoto, Marshall, Tate, or Tunica County to Memphis International Airport can put it on a FedEx plane and make it just about anywhere on Earth within a day or two. You can't do that anywhere else in Mississippi in significant volume.

2:26 you should be ashamed to post such an outright lie. It's not even 400 jobs, and due to storm damage at an old facility that can't be repaired in a cost-effective manner. Why lie??

@2:26 not true and not even close to true. KF, please fact check these comments before posting.

Exactly what data will go through all these data centers?