Manufacturing Datacenter Sites in Mississippi
At a glance
Active or former manufacturing facilities. These sites usually have substantial electrical service, water, and skilled-trades labor pools already in place — strong fundamentals for retrofit-to-datacenter conversion.
Top manufacturing sites in Mississippi
How does Mississippi compare with other states for manufacturing sites?
With 1,445 sites, Mississippi ranks 2nd of the 3 states that have any manufacturing candidate sites. Indiana leads with 5,274. Nationally, manufacturing sites average 52.3/100 DC Readiness, below the 53.0 average across all site types. Across every site type, Mississippi averages 53.0, the 33rd-highest of 52 states, and its candidate sites face an average interconnection-queue wait of 4.1 years.
Where are the highest-scoring manufacturing sites in Mississippi?
The top 25 range from 57.8 to 55.9 on the 0–100 DC Readiness Score. They are concentrated in OKTIBBEHA (11), HANCOCK (7), CLAY (5) and LOWNDES (2). By grid region, 25 are in SERC.
What power, fiber and flood exposure do these manufacturing sites have?
Their counties have a median of 6 fixed fiber broadband providers in FCC data. The median distance to the nearest internet exchange facility is 17 km. The median interconnection-queue wait in their markets is 3.9 years. None of the 2 with a mapped FEMA flood zone sits in a high-risk (A or V) zone.
Frequently asked questions
How many manufacturing datacenter sites are in Mississippi?
GridCensus catalogs 1,445 manufacturing datacenter candidate sites in Mississippi, 19% of the national total for this type (2nd of 3 states).
What is a manufacturing datacenter site?
Active or former manufacturing facilities. These sites usually have substantial electrical service, water, and skilled-trades labor pools already in place — strong fundamentals for retrofit-to-datacenter conversion.
What is the best manufacturing datacenter site in Mississippi?
By DC Readiness Score, SEMISOUTH LABORATORIES, INC. (SEMICONDUCTOR AND RELATED DEVICE MANUFACTURING) in OKTIBBEHA ranks first at 57.8/100, followed by STARKVILLE DAILY NEWS (PREPRESS SERVICES) in OKTIBBEHA at 57.7.
Which Mississippi counties have the best manufacturing sites?
The top 25 manufacturing sites in Mississippi are concentrated in OKTIBBEHA (11), HANCOCK (7), CLAY (5) and LOWNDES (2).
How does Mississippi score for datacenters overall?
All 3,104 scored sites in Mississippi average 53.0/100 DC Readiness, the 33rd-highest of 52 states, against a national average of 53.0.
More on manufacturing sites and Mississippi
- All datacenter sites in Mississippi· 3,104 sites
- Manufacturing datacenter sites nationwide· 7,657 sites
- Substation-Adjacent sites in Mississippi· 694 sites
- Industrial sites in Mississippi· 528 sites
- Greenfield sites in Mississippi· 255 sites
- Former Mine sites in Mississippi· 129 sites
- Federal Excess sites in Mississippi· 53 sites
Manufacturing sites in other states
Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
About this data
Source: GridCensus composite of HIFLD transmission and substation data, EIA, FEMA National Risk Index, FCC broadband data, PeeringDB and ISO interconnection queues, as published November 13, 2026 — GridCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: GridCensus, “Manufacturing datacenter sites in Mississippi”, https://gridcensus.com/site-types/manufacturing/mississippi (data as of November 13, 2026).
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