How will Amazon’s data centers impact Mississippians’ electric bills? We may never know

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In a special legislative session in 2024, lawmakers excitedly passed a package of incentives to lure one of the world’s richest corporations to the nation’s poorest state. Two years later, Amazon now has four data center projects underway in Mississippi. One, in Canton, is already running, while the other three – in Ridgeland, Clinton and Vicksburg – are in the works. In interviews and