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Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center

Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

OperatingNo reception on recordRecord updated September 14, 2026

Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center is an operating data center in Starkville, Mississippi (Oktibbeha County), operated by Mississippi State University (High Performance Computing Collaboratory).

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Facility record

Operating

Operator: Mississippi State University (High Performance Computing Collaboratory)
Facility type: Data center
Location: 2 Research Boulevard, Starkville, Oktibbeha County, MS
Coordinates: 33.4734, -88.7908 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

December 18, 2019
Operating
MSU and NOAA held a ribbon-cutting for the Orion supercomputer housed at the Portera center. Source: Mississippi State University

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center in Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

Academic HPC facility in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park. Houses the NOAA-funded Orion supercomputer, a Dell-EMC system described at its 2019 ribbon-cutting as 28 cabinets, 72,000 processing cores and 350 TB of RAM at 5 petaFLOPS, then the fourth-fastest system in U.S. academia. MSU separately broke ground in May 2023 on a 35,000-square-foot, $45 million High Performance Computing Data Center in the same park, expected to be finished in 2025; no source read this session confirms that building's completion, so it is NOT recorded as a separate facility and no capacity is asserted for it here. Coordinates are the OpenStreetMap building point for the High Performance Computing Collaboratory at 2 Research Boulevard. Distinct site from cspire-starkville-ms, which is a commercial colocation facility elsewhere in the same park.

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.

Power capacity in megawatts
Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Land area
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
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.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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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.

C Spire Starkville Data Center · Starkville · C Spireunder 1 mile · Operating · 1.5 MW
Starkville Industrial Park Road Cryptocurrency Mining Facility · Starkville · Undisclosed4 mi · Proposed · 30 MW · Contested
Columbus Bitcoin Mining Facility (formerly Greenidge Columbus) · Columbus · LM Funding America, Inc. (Power & Compute)21 mi · Operating · 8.5 MW

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center data center in Starkville?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center data center?

No lawsuit over Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center appears in the record we track as of September 14, 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 Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center, and how big is it?

Mississippi State University (High Performance Computing Collaboratory) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Mississippi State University HPC2, Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center," updated September 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/msu-hpc2-portera-starkville-ms.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/msu-hpc2-portera-starkville-ms, retrieved October 1, 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.MSU, NOAA celebrate Orion supercomputer · Mississippi State University · retrieved September 14, 2026
2.MSU breaks ground on new High Performance Computing Data Center · Mississippi State University · retrieved September 14, 2026

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