Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus
Compass is building a 500 MW data center in Lauderdale County, Mississippi (under construction). 2 sources report this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Capacity
- 500 MW
- Investment
- $10B
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
- Other Compass builds
Operator
Compass
Utility
Mississippi Power
Timeline
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred.
- Today
Under construction
Last material change Sep 24, 2026.
- ~2 yr ago
Construction start
- ~2 yr ago
Event date: · First observed: Not reported
- ~2 yr ago
Announced
- ~2 yr ago
Event date: · First observed: Not reported
Record quality
- Datasets
- 1
- Location
- Site footprint confirmed
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasPE Public Evidence ProjectKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- Compass
- Stage
- Under construction
- Facility type
- AI data center
Scale
- Reported capacity
- 500 MW
- Reported investment
- $10B
Reported dates
- Announced
- 2025-01-09Reported date — see the source for the event evidenced.
- Construction start reported
- 2025-01-28Reported date — see the source for the event evidenced.
Site
- City
- Meridian
- County
- Lauderdale
- State
- Mississippi
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmed
Power and cooling
- Utility
- Mississippi Power
- Power source
- Grid power
- AI workload
- Likely AI or machine-learning workload
Permits and public records
- Government records on file
- 1
- Incentives reported
- Mississippi Data Center Incentive - 10-year state income and franchise tax exemption; Mississippi Data Center Incentive - sales and use tax exemption on construction materials, equipment, and hardware/software; Lauderdale County site grant ($4M via the Mississippi Legislature); MDA additional site-preparation grant (amount unspecified); 10-year state income and franchise tax exemption (Mississippi); Sales and use tax exemption on construction materials, equipment and software/hardware replacements (Mississippi)
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus | Under construction | 500 MW |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Sep 14, 2026 · Record: compass-lauderdale-meridian-ms
- CAMississippi Development Authority (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 9, 2026
- CAOffice of Governor Tate Reeves (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 7, 2026
- CACompass Datacenters (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 9, 2026
- CAData Center Dynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 7, 2026
- CAWTOK (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 7, 2026
- CAMississippi Independent (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 7, 2026
- CAOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 23, 2026
- CAWTOK-TV (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 9, 2026
- CASite Selection Magazine (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 14, 2026
- PEPublic Evidence Project: Filing from Office of Governor Tate ReevesAs of: Aug 6, 2026 · Record: source-compass-lauderdale-meridian-ms
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 198542884523488
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Public Evidence Project, U.S. Data Center Public Records Dataset, https://publicevidence.org/data/national-data-center-public-records (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/compass-datacenters-lauderdale-county-hyperscale-campus-ms-dc_b492de1acde0, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order. Capacity and dates are as reported by the cited sources. “Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
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