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Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus
Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi · All 6 Compass Datacenters sites · Every QTS and Compass Datacenters case on our tracker
Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus is a data center under construction in Meridian, Mississippi (Lauderdale County), operated by Compass Datacenters. The public record puts it at announced January 9, 2025, 500 MW planned, a reported $10 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Compass Datacenters
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS
- Coordinates
- 32.3644, -88.7037
- Power capacity
- 500 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $10 billion
- Announced
- January 9, 2025
- Utility
- Mississippi Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Mississippi Data Center Incentive - 10-year state income and franchise tax exemption | Mississippi Data Center Incentive - sales and use tax exemption on construction materials, equipment, and hardware/software | Lauderdale County site grant ($4M via the Mississippi Legislature) | MDA additional site-preparation grant (amount unspecified) | 10-year state income and franchise tax exemption, Mississippi, 2025 | Sales and use tax exemption on construction materials, equipment and software/hardware replacements, Mississippi, 2025
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- January 28, 2025Under constructionOfficial groundbreaking ceremony at the I-20/59 Industrial Park, Meridian
- January 9, 2025ProposedCampus announced by Compass Datacenters; confirmed by the Mississippi Development Authority and Governor's office
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Named both 'worst economic development deal of 2025' (Center for Economic Accountability) and 'best' (Business Facilities magazine).
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Named both 'worst economic development deal of 2025' (Center for Economic Accountability) and 'best' (Business Facilities magazine).
Power and water
Mississippi Power to supply ~500 MW; the utility invested in a dedicated substation at the I-20/59 Industrial Park to enable the campus.
Compass describes its campuses as using "Advanced hybrid cooling that uses no water during operations". coolingType is left unset: the phrase is company boilerplate and "hybrid" there refers to Compass's air/liquid heat-capture approach at the rack, which docs/methodology.md explicitly says is NOT this field's meaning. A waterless claim points to `air`, but the methodology's tie-breaker requires knowing whether a recirculating water circuit exists, and no fetched source for this campus says.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Data Center Incentive - 10-year state income and franchise tax exemption | Not established | Not established | |
| Mississippi Data Center Incentive - sales and use tax exemption on construction materials, equipment, and hardware/software | Not established | Not established | |
| Lauderdale County site grant ($4M via the Mississippi Legislature) | Not established | Not established | |
| MDA additional site-preparation grant (amount unspecified) | Not established | Not established | |
| 10-year state income and franchise tax exemption | Not established | Mississippi | 2025 |
| Sales and use tax exemption on construction materials, equipment and software/hardware replacements | Not established | Mississippi | 2025 |
Notes on the record
Eight-data-center campus over an eight-year buildout at the I-20/59 Industrial Park, Meridian. Groundbreaking Jan 28 2025 (under construction). Mississippi Power to supply ~500 MW via a dedicated substation. INVESTMENT OMITTED: the widely cited $10B is a projected full-occupancy total INCLUDING future tenants' IT equipment ('an investment of $10 billion, including future tenants' information technology equipment'), not a firm Compass outlay. 'Thousands of jobs' is a projection. First confirmed tenant: Corderill LLC ($100M equipment, 20 jobs, April 2026). Coordinates are the Meridian centroid (no parcel coordinates published).
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
Which document closes each gap
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
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.
- CleanSpark Meridian Bitcoin Mining Facility · Meridian · CleanSpark, Inc.under 1 mile · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus in Meridian?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Named both 'worst economic development deal of 2025' (Center for Economic Accountability) and 'best' (Business Facilities magazine).
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus?
No lawsuit over Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus, and how big is it?
Compass Datacenters is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 500 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/compass-lauderdale-meridian-ms.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/compass-lauderdale-meridian-ms, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Compass Datacenters Project Generates $10B Investment in Lauderdale County · Mississippi Development Authority · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.Compass Datacenters Project Generates $10B Investment - Governor's Office · Office of Governor Tate Reeves · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 3.Compass Project Generates $10B Investment in Lauderdale County · Compass Datacenters · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 4.Compass to develop $10 billion data center campus in Mississippi · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 5.Compass Data Centers hosts official groundbreaking ceremony in Lauderdale County · WTOK · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 6.Mississippi's Data Center Boom · Mississippi Independent · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 7.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 8.Compass Datacenters project generates $10 billion investment in Lauderdale County · Mississippi Development Authority · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 9.Compass Project Generates $10B Investment in Lauderdale County · Compass Datacenters · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 10.Lauderdale County gives statement on Compass Data Center · WTOK-TV · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 11.Compass Project Generates $10B Investment in Lauderdale County · Compass Datacenters · retrieved September 9, 2026
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