Ground has been broken on Mississippi’s latest multi-billion-dollar economic development project.
Officials gathered in Meridian on Tuesday to put shovels in the dirt at the $10 billion Compass Datacenters campus. Compass, a Dallas-based multinational data center developer, is making east Mississippi the home of its first campus in the region and one of the largest hyperscale data center developments in the southeastern U.S.
Just another historic day in Mississippi!
Today, we broke new ground on Compass Datacenter’s hyperscale data center campus in Meridian.
This $10 billion investment is tied for the largest economic development project in state history and will create thousands of jobs! pic.twitter.com/YHxJDBNgTV
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) January 28, 2025
Eight data centers will make up the full campus, which is expected to be constructed over an eight-year period. Thousands of jobs will be created in the project, which will also include other information technology equipment from future third-party tenants.