JACKSON — Mississippi’s environmental permit board will hold a hearing Monday on a proposed Southaven power plant that would supply electricity to data centers. Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner Andy Gipson will chair the hearing.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board will hear evidence in the matter involving MZX LLC at 9 a.m. Nov. 9 in the agency’s conference room at 515 E. Amite St. in Jackson.
“I believe this is the first evidentiary hearing ever by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality involving a data center related power plant,” Gipson said. “Mississippians have questions and I believe they deserve answers, and I intend to get them.”…