Haley reveals.“ When we were founded 100 years ago, electricity was still a new industry, and now, the industry is seeing a rebirth; a lot of manufacturing is moving back to the United States, and there’ s been a huge growth in the number of data centers, cloud storage hubs, machine learning and artificial intelligence. We’ re excited because this growth will allow us to better serve our customers and communities.”
In terms of new developments, Entergy Mississippi has been thrilled to announce perhaps its biggest partnership to date: a major data center project with Amazon Web Services( AWS). For a company that’ s committed to empowering its communities, this project is monumental for Entergy Mississippi. Regarded as the‘ largest economic win in Mississippi history’, AWS’ investment in the state will change the lives of many, creating thousands of new jobs, generating significant tax revenue and funding an increasing number of charitable and philanthropic projects for communities.
“ We entered into an agreement with AWS to provide two data center campuses in Madison County, which is a part of the Entergy Mississippi service territory. It’ s the largest economic project in state history, fivefold,” Haley affirms.“ AWS has committed over $ 10 billion to the state of Mississippi, which will create more than 1000 new jobs: it’ s a real win for our customers and communities. These investments are also allowing us to pull two of our later-planned power plants forward, which will be a real benefit to our customers.
“ Growth is very important when it comes to serving our customers because the more money we spend, the more cost we’ re adding to the business, and if our customer base isn’ t growing then that cost gets transferred to our customers. When 20 percent of your customers live below the national poverty level, you must be cognizant of that, so we
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