Amazon Canton Data Center is a data center operated by AWS. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Jackson data-center market on the MISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 12.3-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Jackson — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Jackson — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Jackson's data center market is nascent and severely undersized, with eight tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of operational capacity. The market's DCPI score of 47/100 for excess power and 28/100 for constraint severity reflects a fundamental infrastructure deficit—neither a glut of available power nor the kind of tight, premium-priced scarcity that supports recurring revenue. Four operators maintain single-facility presence in the market: Centurylink Jackson, U.S. Next Jackson, Uniti Jackson, and Venture Technologies Mississippi E Center, each operating in isolation without portfolio density. The AVOID verdict is unambiguous for acquisition-stage investors. An excess-power rating of 47/100 signals the market lacks sufficient spare generation to absorb new colocation demand or support density growth; simultaneously, the constraint score of 28/100 indicates the market is not operating…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 5 operating generating units totalling 1,378 MW within about 50 km of this location. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
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