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Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson)

Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi

ProposedOpposedRecord updated September 14, 2026

Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) is a proposed data center in Jackson, Mississippi (Hinds County), operated by Saxum Investment Company (end user undisclosed). The public record puts it at announced May 2026, 230 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Saxum Investment Company (end user undisclosed)
Facility type: Data center
Location: Jackson, Hinds County, MS
Coordinates: 32.3705, -90.1999 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 230 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: May 2026
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: Opposed
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.

May 20, 2026
Proposed
New Jersey-based Saxum applied to rezone roughly 190 acres along Forest Avenue from residential/commercial/light-industrial to I-2 Industrial to attract a data center; the request was later amended upward to 230 acres. Source: WLBT

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents of the Ashley Acres neighborhood chanted 'No data center' at the May 27, 2026 planning meeting; organizers cited Jackson's drinking-water and infrastructure problems, and an adjacent organic farmer said he was 'very worried about the impact to my organic, regenerative-based farm.' The rezoning hearing was postponed and the city began considering a six-month moratorium on data center approvals.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.

Residents of the Ashley Acres neighborhood chanted 'No data center' at the May 27, 2026 planning meeting; organizers cited Jackson's drinking-water and infrastructure problems, and an adjacent organic farmer said he was 'very worried about the impact to my organic, regenerative-based farm.' The rezoning hearing was postponed and the city began considering a six-month moratorium on data center approvals.

Source: Mississippi Free Press

Notes on the record

Site is along Forest Avenue / Forest Avenue Extension between Medgar Evers Boulevard and I-220 in Northwest Jackson; current owners named in the WLBT report are Gusta F. LLC and WMIW LLC. Attorney Robert Ireland represented an unnamed 'company' and no end user, capacity or investment figure was disclosed, so those fields are omitted. This is a distinct site from the tracked Prado AI / PraCon Global campus (prado-ai-jackson-metro-ms), which is a different developer on a different parcel in the Jackson metro. Coordinates are an OpenStreetMap geocode of Forest Avenue in Northwest Jackson, not a parcel footprint.

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
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.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) in Jackson?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson)?

No lawsuit over Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) 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 Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson) 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 Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson), and how big is it?

Saxum Investment Company (end user undisclosed) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 230 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Saxum Forest Avenue Data Center Site (Northwest Jackson)," updated September 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/saxum-forest-avenue-jackson-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/saxum-forest-avenue-jackson-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.Company seeking to rezone Forest Avenue property for Jackson data center · WLBT · retrieved September 14, 2026
2.Jackson Data Center Proposal Expands to 230 Acres Amid Local Opposition · Mississippi Free Press · retrieved September 14, 2026

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