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Amazon Ridgeland

1626 E COUNTY LINE RD, RIDGELAND, MS, 39157 · RIDGELAND, Madison County, MS

Source: Primary source

Amazon Ridgeland is a mapped data center in Madison County, MS, operated by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 273 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Real parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Operator
Amazon.com, Inc.
Power
273 MW
Utility
Entergy Mississippi LLC
Grid
MISO
Attribution & capacity confidence:highprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Amazon Ridgeland — frontier AI data center campus tracked by Epoch AI, operated by Amazon. Estimated capital cost ~$8.6B (2025 USD). Located from Epoch AI's Frontier Data Centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0); operational status not independently verified.

Operator chain

Known aliases: Amazon Ridgeland

The grid behind this site, right now

source: MISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
53%
Fossil right now
41%
Grid operator
MISO
  • Coal20.8%
  • Wind20.7%
  • Natural Gas19.9%
  • Solar18.2%
  • Nuclear14.6%
  • Imports4.0%
  • Other1.8%

Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 2:45 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
    Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term yr · source

Water use

Modeled estimate~5.7M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~2.8M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~2.9M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 273 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.55 gal/kWh embedded in MISO grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
47
PM2.5
Good
44
O3
Good
18
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Jackson), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$49.5K
People of color
76%
Below poverty
18%
Tract population
2,417

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Revive Collegiate in Jackson, is 1.3 mi from this site (154 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.