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Recent Mississippi data center news

• Jul 23, 2026

  White House Expands Data Center Ratepayer Pledge as Congress Moves to Codify Protections

  The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to 187 utilities, electric cooperatives, and data-center developers, while Congress advanced the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act from committee 52-0.

  • The White House said the pledge now covers 187 organizations plus 23 governors, and the coalition “protects” 263 million Americans; signatories commit to fund generation and grid upgrades for their data-center loads without shifting costs to other ratepayers.
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 9340 on July 21; the bill would require state regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider a large-load standard for sites with at least 100 MW peak demand and recover the full incremental cost of grid upgrades. New York’s Executive Order 62 separately put permits for 50 MW+ data centers on hold pending an environmental review.
• Jul 14, 2026

  Climate Change Solutions - July 14, 2026

  The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) has published a climate and energy newsletter highlighting recent articles, congressional actions, and upcoming briefings.

  • Main announcement/action: EESI promotes an online briefing with the Natural Resources Defense Council on Thursday, July 16 at noon about tracking and reducing nitrogen fertilizer use, associated emissions, and lowering costs for farmers.
  • Background and other details: The newsletter also references a House vote on the SECURE Grid Act (H.R. 7257), a future briefing on severe drought on July 24, and archived materials on extreme heat, grid resilience, and data centers.
  • The issue is presented as a newsletter / event roundup rather than a standalone policy announcement by a company, and it includes EESI contact information at the end.
• Jul 14, 2026

  CleanSpark secures tenant with 20-year lease for data center in Sandersville, Georgia

  CleanSpark has announced a 20-year lease for its Sandersville, Georgia data center with an unnamed global technology company, marking a monetization milestone for its digital infrastructure portfolio.

  • The lease covers 175MW of IT capacity at the Georgia site and includes two five-year extension options; CleanSpark expects $6.6 billion in contracted revenue over the initial term.
  • CleanSpark also signed a letter of intent covering its Texas portfolio of 718 acres and 885MW of secured and planned capacity, including the Sealy and Bazoria campuses; the company said the customer will deploy production-grade infrastructure for a range of computing workloads.
• Jul 14, 2026

  US Air Force Research Lab to relocate TI-19 supercomputer from Ohio to Mississippi

  The US Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) plans to relocate the TI-19 supercomputer from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) facility in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

  • Single-source notice says Hewlett Packard Enterprise will receive the relocation contract because it is the manufacturer of TI-19 and has the only access to the proprietary physical and logical interconnections needed to disassemble and reassemble the system.
  • A referenced 2016 presentation lists TI-19 as an FY21 system with 47 petaflops on a Cray EX architecture; the article notes the system was originally expected to run until 2024 and that Wright-Patterson recently unveiled the $20m Flyer supercomputer with 14 petaflops.
• Jul 10, 2026

  FLOPS vs Megawatts: Who’s Winning in 2026 Supercomputing?

  The article provides analysis and commentary on 2026 supercomputing buildouts, contrasting public exascale systems with hyperscaler AI campuses. It is not a first-time announcement by one entity, but a roundup of recent developments and milestones.

  • The piece compares public TOP500 systems and private hyperscaler AI campuses, highlighting that private builds are measured in hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts rather than HPL scores.
  • It cites several recent milestones, including Microsoft’s Wisconsin Fairwater campus, xAI’s Colossus 2, OpenAI and Oracle’s Stargate, and Meta’s Prometheus nuclear power agreements.
  • It also notes Alice Recoque installation in France under a €354.8 million EuroHPC JU contract with Eviden and mentions the next TOP500 list at SC26 in November.
• Jul 1, 2026

  🤖 La Machine #83: Dust's AI Agents Could Transform the Future of Enterprise Work

  Aire (registered as FLOPS & FRIENDS) is reported to be seeking a large Seed round to build an “AI scientist.”

  • Main announcement: According to Sifted, Aire (FLOPS & FRIENDS) is seeking $400 million in Seed funding at a reported valuation of around $2 billion to build an “AI scientist” aimed at automating R&D across fields including biology, physics and finance; the company was co‑founded by ex‑OpenAI researcher Irwan Bello and former Meta FAIR researchers Gabriel Synnaeve and Yossi Adi, with operations spanning the US, France and Israel.
  • Context and related developments: The newsletter primarily reports and aggregates recent announcements and coverage (scoop/coverage style) rather than publishing an original company press release; it also highlights related AI sector moves — Sopht raised €7.5 million to optimize cloud/AI costs, YesWeHack launched an AI “agentic pentest” platform, Yousign added integrations with major AI assistants, and Dust outlined enterprise multi‑agent workflows in an interview with co‑founder Stanislas Polu.
• Jun 29, 2026

  30MW cryptomine proposed in Starkville, Mississippi

  An unnamed firm has proposed a cryptocurrency mining facility in Starkville, Mississippi.

  • Project details: The proposal is for a facility adjacent to an electrical substation on Industrial Park Road, with a potential load of up to 30MW; the plan is in early review and city officials say it could be several months before another update. The same company is reportedly seeking additional sites in Tennessee for much larger hyperscale centers “five to ten-fold, and maybe even 20-plus-times larger.”
  • Local response and technical points:Starkville Utilities director Edward Kemp said the steady 30MW load could be favorable for the city-owned utility and help offset future rate increases; the company has committed to follow local noise ordinances, Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill described a visited mining site as “surprisingly quiet” and “mostly innocuous,” and a Change.org petition (launched June 18) cites concerns including up to 30MW demand and 20,000 gallons of water usage (petition had 11 verified signatures as of publication).
• Jun 22, 2026

  DOJ intervenes on behalf of xAI in data center gas turbine lawsuit

  The Department of Justice has filed a request to intervene and seek dismissal of the NAACP lawsuit challenging xAI’s use of temporary gas-fired turbines at the Stanton Road site that powers the Colossus 2 data center.

  • Main action: DOJ has asked a federal court to intervene and dismiss the NAACP Clean Air Act suit; the Department of Defense (Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Cameron Stanley) filed testimony arguing the case implicates U.S. national security, noting xAI’s Colossus 2 trains Grok models used by DOD. The NAACP sued in April, alleges operation of 27 gas turbines totaling 495 MW without an air permit, and requested a preliminary injunction in May.
  • Background and context: The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said the turbines qualify as mobile sources under the Clean Air Act; DOD cited the Grok Gov Model’s integration into Maven Smart System and use in the Iran war (Operation Epic Fury). Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves wrote to support the project; the Environmental Protection Network criticized DOJ’s intervention as seeking broad executive veto power over citizen enforcement.
• Jun 19, 2026

  Earth’s Follies Week 70: the murky pool of consequences

  Xylb’tok the Martian publishes a satirical opinion column summarising multiple recent Earth events including US military strikes in Venezuela, a paused US-Iran peace/rebuilding deal, and pollution allegations at Elon Musk’s xAI data centre.

  • Main announcement/action: The piece reports on recent US military strikes in Venezuela (targets linked to Tren de Aragua), a widely reported US contribution of around $300bn towards rebuilding tied to a Trump-Iran peace settlement (the deal was reported paused due to ongoing conflict and followed shortly by a reported ceasefire). It also highlights allegations that xAI’s data centre in Memphis/North Mississippi is emitting pollution from dozens of gas turbines and that the NAACP has called for federal intervention (and that there is a legal effort to shut down the lawsuit).
  • Background and other details: The column is opinion/satire (not a primary announcement); it references reporting from Reuters, The Guardian, BBC, The Independent and AP News, mentions millions in cost overruns and hydrogen-peroxide treatments at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and cites calls to invoke the Insurrection Act (reported urging by JD Vance). The piece mixes factual references and satire rather than announcing a new policy directly.
• Jun 18, 2026

  How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability

  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a major national policy to speed and reform large-load interconnection following U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright’s directive.

  • Main announcement:FERC has established a national framework to accelerate large-load interconnection: customers can fund their own network upgrades, offer flexible load, and in some cases proceed with study periods as short as 60 days per Secretary Wright’s directive. The action is presented as a formal policy change and implementation pathway rather than an historical recap.
  • Details & context: The blog post is a corporate commentary/announcement endorsing the policy and describing industry responses: it cites Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory findings (≈$0.06/kWh reduction correlated with 10% higher state consumption), PG&E forecasts (each new 1 GW of data center load could reduce rates 1–2%), and announces NVIDIA and Emerald AI will begin commercial deployment later this year of flexible AI factories that bring generation and grid-responsive load to the system.