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AVAIO Digital Breaks Ground on $6 Billion Brandon Data Center Campus; Leading Mississippi Contractor Begins Site Work
AVAIO Digital Partners (AVAIO Digital) today announced that site work is officially underway on its $6 billion Taurus Data Center Hub in Brandon, Mississippi. After executing an Agreement for Electric Service with Entergy in August, the start of site work on the 329-acre campus marks another important milestone in advancing the project, which will create a new center of gravity for cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the Southeast. The Taurus campus is scheduled to be ready for o
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