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Commissioner Stamps: data centers pay for their own power and fund reliability upgrades in Madison County
Summary
At a Madison County outreach meeting, Central Public Service Commissioner Stamps said large data‑center customers pay their own generation and transmission costs and that negotiated fees and property taxes from those facilities help fund a statewide reliability program called 'Superpower Mississippi.'
Commissioner Stamps told residents at a Madison County community meeting that data centers and other high‑volume users do not shift their direct electricity costs onto residential customers and that those facilities contribute property tax and negotiated funding to local reliability investments. "You are not paying for a data center's electrical needs," Stamps said, adding that large users also contribute to Superpower Mississippi, a program to buy poles, lines and transformers for reliability improvements.
Why this matters: Residents in northeastern Madison County had voiced concerns that nearby data centers and their large electricity use would increase…
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