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Amazon Data Services INC, Madison Mega Site

1978 HIGHWAY 22 · CANTON, Madison County, MS

Source: Primary source

Amazon Data Services INC, Madison Mega Site is a mapped data center in Madison County, MS, operated by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 341 MW of reported power capacity and 1 tracked EPA enforcement record at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Operator
Amazon.com, Inc.
Power
341 MW
Interconnection
~300 MW
Utility
Yazoo Valley Elec Power Assn
Grid
MISO
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

The Madison Mega Site in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, is an Amazon Data Services Inc data center operated by Amazon.com, Inc., which ultimately owns it. Operational since 2025, the site reports a power capacity of 341 MW, drawing electricity from Yazoo Valley Elec Power Assn within the MISO grid. It carries 1 tracked environmental enforcement record.

Operator chain

Known aliases: Amazon Madison Mega Site

The grid behind this site, right now

source: MISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
54%
Fossil right now
42%
Grid operator
MISO
  • Wind21.6%
  • Natural Gas21.4%
  • Coal20.5%
  • Solar18.4%
  • Nuclear14.1%
  • Imports2.2%
  • Other1.8%

Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 4:35 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
    Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term yr · source

Water use

Modeled estimate~7.1M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~3.5M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~3.6M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 341 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.55 gal/kWh embedded in MISO grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO
  • Clean Air Actno penalty
    formal · reported 2025-03-20

Environmental permits

source: Permit register
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceMS0000002808900098
    NAICS 518210 999999; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
47
PM2.5
Good
44
O3
Good
18
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Jackson), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$71.4K
People of color
19%
Below poverty
1%
Tract population
1,521

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Reuben B. Myers Canton School Of Ar in Canton, is 2.8 mi from this site (362 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.