The developers estimate the project will create 200 permanent jobs and 1,000 temporary construction jobs.
Eagle Rock Partners is designing a $6 billion, roughly 2 million square-feet data center for Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, one of the nation's poorest counties. Eagle Rock Partners estimates the project will create 1,000 temporary construction jobs and 200 permanent jobs.
Gary Russell Bass, director of the Jefferson Davis County Economic Development Association, said the tax revenue, investment and jobs the data center would bring “could completely transform this county.” Bass also said he “wants the project to be transparent to the public and be a model for how to develop a data center well,” Katherine Lin writes for Mississippi Today.
Eagle Rock Partners will build the data center away from homes in the county, and will use a “closed loop cooling system to consume minimal water and use natural gas generation located on site that will need to be approved by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality before operation,” Mississippi Today reports.
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