CLINTON – Local leaders from Hinds County and Clinton on Tuesday celebrated Amazon’s planned $1-billion data center in the former Delphi plant.
Clinton Mayor Will Purdie called it “a truly historic moment in the life of our city.”
The project is expected to create 100 new jobs in Hinds County, in addition to 1,500 construction workers at its peak. In addition Clinton leaders have said the project is expected to bring in $5 million for the city and school district in its first year.
The former auto parts plant once employed almost 300 people but has sat mostly empty since 2009, except for a short stint as a Milwaukee Tool plant. Multiple officials and representatives from Entergy and Amazon in a Tuesday ceremony highlighted the economic value of transforming a long vacant building.
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Clinton Mayor Will Purdie and Amazon Economic Development, Web Services Vice President Roger Wehner, center, and other local leaders, cut a ribbon on a Clinton Amazon data center on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayAccording to Robert Wehner, vice president of economic development at Amazon Web Services, the project is the first time the company has retrofitted an existing industrial building into a data center at this scale. He said the project, which the company began looking into in July 2025, included addressing asbestos, mold and other necessary upgrades.
In April, at the ribbon cutting for Amazon’s new data center in Ridgeland, Wehner said that the Clinton building will not use any water. Instead, the building will use air cooling.
Speakers celebrated the large economic development project and its promised benefits for the city and county.
“When Amazon comes to town, it brings more than brick and mortar,” said Robert Graham, president of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, “Amazon also brings possibilities and hope.”
There are seven data center projects confirmed in Mississippi, including four by Amazon, and at least three more being considered.
Amazon’s total investment in the state is expected to be around $25 billion. In 2024, the Legislature passed an incentive package and waived many regulations to bring the company to the state.
The Clinton project became public in March after a fee in lieu agreement signed by the city’s Board of Aldermen. At a city meeting in March, Clinton residents expressed cautious optimism about the project and worries over a data center’s impact on energy rates and potentially other issues.
Earlier this month, Clinton’s Board of Aldermen amended the city’s zoning ordinances. Any new data centers would now have to get a conditional use permit and be located in an industrial area. All data centers would have to come before the board and the Planning Commission before a permit is approved. Clinton residents had concerns about the lack of details and public disclosures around the Amazon project.
At the board meeting, Roy Edwards, the city’s director of Community Development, said that he had spoken with another company considering building a data center in Clinton.
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