AWS Project Atlas, Madison County Mega Site (Canton)

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

1. October 7, 2026

   Operating
   The City of Clarksdale's March 2026 data center FAQ describes the AWS Project Atlas campus in Madison County as the only data center project in operation in Mississippi, with five hyperscale building developments in operation and more under construction. Source: City of Clarksdale
2. 2024

   Proposed
   AWS confirmed as operator behind $10B Madison County development; two hyperscale complexes at Madison County Mega Site and Costas Property near Tougaloo College [Scope note, 2026-09-10: this entry is the 2024 historical record, when this row covered both Madison County campuses. The row was narrowed to the Canton Mega Site (927 acres) on 2026-09-10; the Ridgeland Costas Property is tracked separately as AWS Costas Property Campus (Ridgeland). Read the acreage and the 'two parks' framing here as history, not as this record's current scope.] Source: Data Center Dynamics
3. 2024

   Under construction
   Construction underway across approximately 1,700 acres in two Madison County industrial parks; completion expected 2027 [Scope note, 2026-09-10: this entry is the 2024 historical record, when this row covered both Madison County campuses. The row was narrowed to the Canton Mega Site (927 acres) on 2026-09-10; the Ridgeland Costas Property is tracked separately as AWS Costas Property Campus (Ridgeland). Read the acreage and the 'two parks' framing here as history, not as this record's current scope.]

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. AWS Project Atlas, Madison County Mega Site (Canton) in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Canton neighbors report dust, noise and air-quality effects and say they were not consulted; the Southern Environmental Law Center has raised ambient-air-standard concerns over the 700+ diesel generators.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

Canton neighbors report dust, noise and air-quality effects and say they were not consulted; the Southern Environmental Law Center has raised ambient-air-standard concerns over the 700+ diesel generators. No litigation over the Canton campus is documented in the fetched sources.

Source: Mississippi Free Press

Power and water

Entergy deploying additional solar farms in Hinds, Washington, and Tallahatchie counties; Entergy investing $2-3B in grid infrastructure (Superpower Mississippi initiative)

Canton facility transitioning to 100% recycled wastewater for cooling by 2027; 83 million gallons annually per Amazon announcement

Public money on the record

Notes on the record

Two distinct complexes: Madison County Mega Site (outside Canton) and Costas Property (west of Tougaloo College near County Line Rd, Ridgeland). Amazon's total Mississippi statewide commitment expanded to $25B including subsequent Warren County ($3B) and Hinds County ($1B) announcements. Coordinates are approximate Canton-area centroid. The Veolia water partnership claim was removed: the About Amazon source names Arable (not Veolia) as water replenishment partner; recycled wastewater target of 83M gallons/year by 2027 is confirmed. Narrowed to Canton on 2026-09-10 (maintainer adjudication): this record previously combined two campuses. Madison County's own tax administration treats them as separate, it 'has entered into two fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements with the tech giant for its data center campuses in Canton and Ridgeland' (Mississippi Free Press, 2026-08-19), and Magnolia Tribune (2024-07-24) gives the physical split: the Madison County Mega Site is '927 acres ... located off Highway 22 and Nissan Parkway in Canton', while the Costas Property is 'an additional 786 acres in Ridgeland'. The Ridgeland campus is therefore, as of September 2026, tracked separately as AWS Costas Property Campus (Ridgeland), and the land acreage here was reduced from the combined 1,700 to Canton's 927 so the two records do not double-count acreage. The capacity, investment and jobs figures on this record remain program-level figures from the original Project Atlas announcement covering both Madison County campuses; they are left in place here rather than split, because no source apportions them per campus. They should not be summed with AWS Costas Property Campus (Ridgeland), which carries no capacity, investment or jobs figures for this reason. The location was also corrected from an exact pin to an approximate pin: this record's notes already stated the coordinate is a Canton-area centroid, so the exact-pin claim was wrong. The two campuses are treated by Madison County's tax and incentive administration as legally and financially separate: the Madison County Mega Site (927 acres, off Highway 22 and Nissan Parkway, Canton) and the Costas Property (786 acres, Highland Colony Parkway / West County Line Road, Ridgeland), as confirmed by a 2026-08-19 Mississippi Free Press report on Madison County's denial of AWS's Canton tax-valuation appeal: the county 'has entered into two fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements with the tech giant for its data center campuses in Canton and Ridgeland.' The latitude and longitude (32.6121, -90.039) read as Canton-specific, closer to Canton than to Ridgeland. The combined capacity (1000 MW planned), investment ($10B) and jobs (7,000/1,000) are not apportioned by site: as of September 2026, no source found states a per-site breakdown, and apportioning by acreage share (54%/46%) would be a fabricated estimate. Ridgeland is itself within Madison County, so the aggregate's 'Madison County' framing is not geographically wrong, only combined.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

• Prado AI / PraCon Global AI Industrial Campus · Ridgeland · PraCon Global Investment Group14 mi · Proposed · Contested
• AWS Costas Property Campus (Ridgeland) · Ridgeland · Amazon Web Services17 mi · Under construction
• Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) · Jackson · Saxum Investment Company (end user undisclosed)19 mi · Proposed · Opposed
• AVAIO Digital Taurus · Brandon · AVAIO Digital Partners24 mi · Under construction · 116 MW · Mixed reception
• AWS Clinton Data Center · Clinton · Amazon Web Services25 mi · Under construction
• CleanSpark Clinton Bitcoin Mining Facilities · Clinton · CleanSpark, Inc.26 mi · Operating · 16.5 MW

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