A battle over data centers heats up along the Mississippi-Tennessee state line

By: Illan Ireland

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: March 18, 2026

Words: 1,716

Last Updated: 3 days, 2 hours ago

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SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Over the last three years, Devan Jenkins has watched the trees around her family home give way to industrial development.

Directly in front of her property along the Mississippi-Tennessee border sits a tangle of massive power lines, an extension of the electrical grid operated by Memphis Light, Gas and Water.

At the end of her street, a few hundred yards away from her bedroom, sprawls Colossus 2, the second data center built …

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