Clarksdale hyperscale data center site In review
Clarksdale rezoned a 648-acre site between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street for a possible hyperscale campus, attaching conditions but naming no developer. No agreement has been signed and the end user is unknown.
Key facts
- Size
- 648 ac
- Location
- Clarksdale (Coahoma County), Mississippi
- First proposed
- 2026-03-10
- Stage today
- In review
Source
read 2026-08-23
What to do next
Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.
What has happened so far (3 events)
- 2026-03-10announcement
Clarksdale officials confirmed they were considering a hyperscale data center proposal on agricultural land inside the city, with the Crossroads Economic Partnership saying only that the counterparty is a global company. · source - 2026-03-18public-comment
Residents of the Delta town, one of the poorest in Mississippi, described the prospect as a potential lifeline, while others pressed for guarantees on utility costs and jobs. · source - 2026-03-23rezoning
The Clarksdale Board of Commissioners voted to rezone the 648-acre site with conditions: a $5 million impact fee paid before construction, developer-funded utility upgrades, emissions permits, and a 1,000-foot buffer from residential districts. Only the mayor and two commissioners were present. Mayor Orlando Paden stressed the vote does not approve a data center. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Mississippi DEQ — Air DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Mississippi DEQ — Air Division for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Clarksdale (Coahoma County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Clarksdale (Coahoma County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- MISO (Midwest & Gulf) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Mississippi Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 34.200, -90.570 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Mississippi briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Mississippi
- AWS Madison County data center campuses — Madison County, 113 mi Proposed
- Amazon Madison Mega Site — Canton (Madison County), 114 mi
- Amazon Ridgeland — Ridgeland, 125 mi Under construction
- Saxum Investment Data Center — Jackson, 129 mi In review
- Compass Datacenters Meridian — Meridian Under construction
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Clarksdale hyperscale data center site”, aigridwatch.com/projects/clarksdale-data-center-ms, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
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