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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- AVAIO Digital Partners
- Address and locality
- Brandon · Rankin County · Mississippi
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 116 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000115
What the source record says
Distinct from AVAIO's 'Leo' campus in Little Rock/Pulaski County AR — do not conflate. Site: East Metropolitan Center Business and Industrial Park, Brandon. Land acreage: AVAIO's own project page and groundbreaking materials cite 329 acres; the August 19 press release cited 175 acres — 329 used as more authoritative per operator's site. Capacity: 116 MW initial via executed ESA with Entergy Mississippi (energized June 2027 per operator site); Entergy guiding an additional 420 MW of grid power available by end of 2030; access to Gulf South Pipeline for up to 500 MW of on-site behind-the-meter thermal generation starting Q2 2027 — total baseload path to over 1 GW. The 116 MW planned figure reflects the executed first-phase ESA only; full buildout remains a projection. Investment: $6B stated without 'up to' qualifier across operator, MDA, and Governor's office sources; Governor's office describes it as the third-largest economic development project in Mississippi history. Jobs: 'at least 60 direct, high-tech jobs' and 'hundreds of indirect jobs ranging from construction to other related industries' — projections, not firm figures; no construction vs permanent breakdown confirmed. Rooftop solar of 20+ MW planned (behind-the-meter). Recycled water and new sewer line extension cited by operator as water infrastructure options. Estimated $23M in ad valorem tax revenue annually per Rankin First (county economic development group). Coordinates approximate (Brandon city center, Rankin County).
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-08-19 · reported proposed
AVAIO Digital announced $6B AI-ready data center campus in Brandon, Rankin County, MS; Mississippi Development Authority approved Data Center Enterprises tax exemption.
- 2025-09-10 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking held at East Metropolitan Center Business and Industrial Park in Brandon.
Sources and attribution
- AVAIO Digital Taurus announcement press release · PR Newswire / AVAIO Digital Partners
- AVAIO Digital Taurus official project page · AVAIO Digital
- Mississippi Development Authority project announcement · Mississippi Development Authority
- Governor Reeves office announcement — third-largest project in MS history · Office of the Governor of Mississippi
- City of Brandon welcome announcement · City of Brandon, MS
- Brandon residents petition — water, power, pollution concerns · Mississippi Today
- AVAIO Digital Breaks Ground on $6 Billion Brandon Data Center Campus; Leading Mississippi Contractor Begins Site Work · AVAIO Digital Partners (PR Newswire)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID avaio-taurus-brandon-ms. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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