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Amazon Canton Data Centers
Amazon operates multiple data centers in Canton, Madison County, and is involved in a tax valuation dispute with the county while also planning a $25 billion expansion in Mississippi creating 2,000 jobs. It is reported, as reported June 11, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Amazon
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Amazon | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Madison County and Canton about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison County | The Madison County Board of Aldermen upheld the tax assessor's valuation of $292 million per data center | desotocountynews.com | |
| Madison County | Amazon will pay discounted fees of one third of typical property taxes for the first 10 years of each data center's operations over a 30 year term | desotocountynews.com |
What happened
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Amazon established a workforce partnership for its Mississippi data centers [10]
The full Amazon Canton Data Centers timeline, in order
15 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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Tier after resolution (2026-09-21). The source on file is clarionledger.com, the publisher's own page. The item reached the record through Google News: "data center" Mississippi, which the record carries at tier 1, and the approve copied the feed's tier onto this row. The tier now comes from the outlet, which the record already carries at tier 4 on 1 row of monitoring_sources. DECISIONS section 7. The speaker, the claim, the date and the url are unchanged. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
Tier after resolution (2026-09-21). The source on file is clarionledger.com, the publisher's own page. The item reached the record through Google News: "data center" Mississippi, which the record carries at tier 1, and the approve copied the feed's tier onto this row. The tier now comes from the outlet, which the record already carries at tier 4 on 1 row of monitoring_sources. DECISIONS section 7. The speaker, the claim, the date and the url are unchanged. The day's label corrections.
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· the draft of a status history row
Published on a project that was still a draft skeleton and still short of the record's skeleton minimum rule; returned to draft on 2026-09-17 pending the project meeting the rule or a person's approval. The old and new text.
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· the draft of a status history row
Published on a project that was still a draft skeleton and still short of the record's skeleton minimum rule; returned to draft on 2026-09-17 pending the project meeting the rule or a person's approval. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Drew Marsh, Entergy chair and CEO, said large customers like data centers help pick up grid maintenance costs existing customers would otherwise bear alone
Data centers pay 100% of their own grid connection and usage costs plus create additional benefits like tax revenues, jobs, and bill assistance contributions
Every statement about data centers in Mississippi, by speaker
1 more statement on this page
The site
Where in Madison County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 6 other published records in Mississippi
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Canton, Madison County, Mississippi
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Amazon Canton Data Centers?
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Amazon is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Amazon Canton Data Centers say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Amazon Canton Data Centers stand today?
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It is reported, as reported June 11, 2026. The newest entry, reported June 11, 2026: Amazon established a workforce partnership for its Mississippi data centers [10].
What has Canton or Madison County decided about it?
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Madison County: The Madison County Board of Aldermen upheld the tax assessor's valuation of $292 million per data center (reported August 25, 2026, source); and Madison County: Amazon will pay discounted fees of one third of typical property taxes for the first 10 years of each data center's operations over a 30 year term (reported August 25, 2026, source). 2 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Amazon fights Madison County to lower data center fees - The Clarion-Ledger, The Clarion-Ledger, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Madison County, Amazon spar over data center tax values - WLBT, WLBT, August 18, 2026, local outlet
- Entergy customers begin seeing benefits from data center agreements, Fair Share Plus pledge keeps money in customers' pockets - PR Newswire, PR Newswire, August 27, 2026, local outlet
- Madison County Denies Amazon’s Valuation Appeal for Canton Data Centers, Preserving Millions in Tax Revenue - Mississippi Free Press, Mississippi Free Press, August 19, 2026, local outlet
- Where do Amazon’s data centers in Mississippi stand? - Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today, June 9, 2026, local outlet
- Entergy says Amazon's $25 billion MS expansion is helping your power bill - The Clarion-Ledger, The Clarion-Ledger, August 27, 2026, local outlet
- Amazon plans to invest $25 billion in Mississippi data centers, create 2,000 jobs - About Amazon, About Amazon, April 9, 2026, local outlet
- ‘When Amazon comes to town.’ Clinton and company host ribbon cutting for new data center - Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today, June 9, 2026, local outlet
- ‘Exciting day in Mississippi’: Ribbon-cutting marks opening of Clinton data center - WLBT, WLBT, June 9, 2026, local outlet
- A new workforce partnership, Amazon’s data centers: Mississippi Marketplace - Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today, June 11, 2026, local outlet
- Amazon fights Madison County to lower data center fees - The Clarion Ledger, The Clarion-Ledger, September 3, 2026, local outlet
11 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Amazon Canton Data Centers", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/amazon-canton-data-centers-ms, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Amazon Canton Data Centers", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/amazon-canton-data-centers-ms. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- amazon-canton-data-centers-ms
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ms/madison-county/canton
- Coordinates
- 32.6119, -90.0317
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Canton), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17