Mississippi developer plans to move forward with data center plans, even as state declines to give ruling

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A Mississippi company plans to move forward in building a private power plant and an artificial intelligence industrial campus. State utility regulators, though, declined to make a ruling on the project, calling the developer’s request for an opinion “premature” and “hypothetical.”The state’s two largest power companies are protesting the effort, arguing the project would c