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Gabriel Prado, CEO and president of PraCon Global Investment Group, speaks at a press conference in Jackson on Monday, June 1, 2026, on the Public Service Commission declining to issue an opinion and his company's plan to build an AI industrial campus in the Jackson area. Credit: Katherine Lin/Mississippi Today

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Mississippi developer plans to move forward with data center plans, even as state declines to give ruling
By Katherine Lin and Alex Rozier - Mississippi Today
Fri,07/10/26-12:16AM , 98 Reads 2,158 Statewide
The Public Service Commission declined to issue an opinion on Prado’s proposed data center campus, citing a lack of information.

A Mississippi company plans to move forward in building a private power plant and an artificial intelligence industrial campus.
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Developer moves proposed Lafayette County asphalt plant, ‘for the sake of peace’ with neighbors
By Katherine Lin and Alex Rozier - Mississippi Today
Wed,10/29/25-9:38AM , 1,097 Reads 6,225 Statewide
The developer behind a controversial proposed asphalt plant announced on Tuesday he will seek to build it in the Lafayette County Industrial Park, not next to the small community of Taylor as originally planned.
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