Amazon’s Mississippi plan now totals $25 billion. Its announced expansion includes another $11 billion in Madison County and $1 billion to convert the former Delphi plant in Hinds County. [1]
The reporting challenge is simple: a statewide commitment, a county expansion, and an individual data center can describe overlapping investment. Counting each headline as a separate project overstates the picture.
Liquid Labor keeps regional announcements visible, but flags that they can overlap campus records. We do not turn investment dollars into megawatts, and estimated IT capacity is not a utility commitment.
For an operator evaluating Mississippi, I would organize diligence around each campus: the serving utility, contracted load ramp, substation work, water and cooling design, and routes into the fiber network. For a utility, I would want the demand schedule and the responsibility for upgrades to be equally explicit.
A conversion project deserves its own questions. Which existing assets can be reused? What needs replacement? Which permits and electrical upgrades govern the first deployment?
Mississippi utility teams, operators, contractors, and local development organizations: which public document best explains your project’s next milestone? Send the source and date. We want the tracker to be useful to the people responsible for making these projects work.