Jackson Jambalaya

Never realized MS needed that much data-

Brown outs coming for RC…

Is this the development around Home Depot or close to Amphitheater ? Great news!

Will they hire Rankin Rednecks? Asking for a Robin Hood resident.

This is timely because AOL is soon dropping their "dial-up" connectivity. This will be an incentive for Rankin County to go fiber.

I would think widening 18 would be a priority. The traffic is already terrible. It would take years to bring in dirt to build it up to road level. Especially with everything else coming to the area.

Rankin First actually did something. Go figure.

AI will be the next dot.com bust. I'm glad this incessantly and loudly humming, water and electricity hogging facility which will employ about 10 people after it is completed, is located far away from me.

Just as NIKNAR residents were planning to head over to Canton for similar 'announced' opportunities.

These 'glory holes' are going to dot the country like windmills and solar panels.

First thing you know, we'll ditch telegraph lines and start sticking electric transmission poles in the ground everywhere. But, telephone booths in fancy, air conditioned hotels will never disappear.

Cool, another investment in RC

Mississippi is simply a lily pad in the strategerie.

Do you think Mississippi was chosen for its low crime, quality labor force or quality of life amenities in the neighborhood?

Sustainable data centers - an oxymoron?

$6 billion investment and only 60 jobs - definitely better than nothing but a large manufacturing facility with lots of jobs would be better.

Another secret utility agreement between data center and Entergy that excludes PSC oversight coming soon?

wonder how much it cost us

There is a reason that these massive data centers are coming to Mississippi, Louisiana and New Mexico. And it ain't our workforce.

$6 billion investment only generates 60 jobs?

9:51,This is part of the Old Marquette Cement property!

I wish MDA new that Mississippi extends south of I-20.

Mississippi needs to realize these data centers are vampires for our natural resources and cheap power. The power is cheap because rate holders pay for the upgrades, and these guys get tax breaks. $6b project... but 60 jobs... but we get to pay for the generation costs for years to come.

Meanwhile our Capital City twidles its thumb and continues to drive business away with the cavalier, growing culture rot.

I believe I read an article recently that talked about how the state/power company is basically going to have to pass on the cost of the infrastructure to the other people because the companies have something in their agreements that shields them from the costs. Can't remember where the article was, it may have been on this site. If that is correct then folks are about to get some big rate increases with all these data centers because you know we don't currently have the infrastructure for it. Hope its work the temporary construction jobs and the few higher tech jobs that they bring in.

“Securing a multi-billion-dollar investment like AVAIO Digital’s $6 billion data center campus doesn’t happen by chance—it’s the result of Mississippi’s laser-focused strategy to attract world-class companies through our strong economic development resources, including work-ready employees and shovel-ready sites. Thanks to the leadership of Governor Reeves and our Legislature, Mississippi continues to win transformative billion-dollar projects like AVAIO that will shape the future of our economy.”

Well, laser-focusing assisted by all sorts of protests, lawsuits, and refusals at nearly everywhere else these data centers already are (to stop more of them) or have been proposed (to prevent them in the first place). Look no further away than over in Bessemer, AL and the shitstorm over that one. It's real easy to be the best at pounding nails into your own asscheeks when all other potential contenders are handing you nails and laughing at you.

Those areas have discovered that a "$X billion dollar data center" is a net-negative in dollars for the area because the owner/developer spending "$X billion" on equipment elsewhere, and then, having it untaxed at the location (along with property tax abatements) is not a "$X billion" influx to the area. If it actually brings any money at all into the area during the construction, it is quickly negated by the post-construction costs to the area, in both real dollars and quality of life.

Yet another example of "winning" by being a sucker and going after something everyone else is backing away from en masse.

AI will be the next dot.com bust.

Cell companies thought 5G would be sold at a premium. Didn't pan out. Paywalls, how did that work out? So suddenly a world used to free search is going to pay a premium for AI? Don't think so. It will put people out of work but then what? The liberals would crow 'learn to code' when they'd be wise to learn how to mow. When AI busts and crypto ponzi crashes you're looking at a global depression never even imagined.

10:44 don't believe everything you read. There are alot of people out there with personal agendas that want to pass off "doom & gloom" opinions as facts...and get clicks and sell ads. Investments like these data centers are good for MS's economy and will help move our state forward.

I'm sure you're the same one who always brings up niknar. Have you touched some grass lately? Or a boob? Might want to get out more. The same old tired line is old, can you not do better?

In very simple terms, if some "developer" wanted to dispose of some raw sewage ("boo-boo" in Jackghanistanian) and offered to pay 1/2 the principal and interest, but none of taxes and insurance or maintenance, on your home (as long as you agreed to forever waive any and all damage claims) to use it as a disposal site, would you consider that a great offer and accept it? Would you issue a press release announcing your big "win?"

This Makes 3 data centers for the area. I think this is good news. It’s where the future is headed. We don’t want to be left behind in Mississippi, goodness knows how many years we have been behind.

Yes, but "shovel ready" jobs.

True, but Tater can add this to his resume when he inevitably runs for higher office while these data companies pad his PAC's bottom line.

I live in Rankin County and I am curious how spelling Rankin backwards is supposed to somehow be a slur against us? These people like a poster above, who put NIKNAR just sound like complete morons. Oh excuse me.......they sound like complete SNOROM.

By the way, I don't: beat my wife, use meth, have a salt life sticker on a ford F150, a boat I cant pay for, have a 30 A sticker, and I have a college education.

and I think the goon squad were a bunch of assholes

Sincerely,

myself and prob quite a few other rankin county residents

As 10:30 AM pointed out, there are residents in South Mississippi. Maybe the MDA just doesn't know that.

If it actually brings any money at all into the area during the construction ...

Drive up to the AWS action in Madison County and tell me how many license plates you see from Texas and other non-Mississippi states. Might be generating revenue (and taxes) for lodging and food but those ain't Mississippi construction jobs get payrolled.

Just don't count on the centers to produce enough jobs to make a dent.

How will AI replace humans by being “perfect” when they are learning from an “imperfect” being (as much as we hate to admit). It’s going to be just as dumb and misinformed as the humans creating it.

All true. Tater is an ambitious chump and not telling the public the whole truth. Most of the employees will be coming from out of state and it is highly likely that the main contractor will be also. The hardware will also be sourced from out of state.

Go easy on the "Niknar" posts, as the Niknarians are very thin skinned.

So Connecticut found a cheap rural state for hundreds of acres of data centers using boosted electricity rates borne on the backs of poorly educated rednecks. Next, Entergy can find a way for data centers to generate their own electricity consumption, separate from the regional grid.

to 11:22.....glad to see you are normal person. and i sincerely mean that.

but, when it comes to rankin county , normal people are a very small minority.