Entergy says $300 million investment goes beyond MS data center deals

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Entergy Mississippi plans to ask for a $300 million spending increase to improve its power grid.

The company aims to cut power outages in half for its customers within five years.

Funding for the grid improvements will come from new revenue generated by large industrial customers like Amazon.

The upgrades are intended to support Mississippi's growing data center economy without raising costs for existing customers.

As Mississippi gets deeper and deeper into a data center economy that is going to require copious amounts of energy over the next decade, Entergy Mississippi has decided to push all its chips in the middle of the table.

Entergy Mississippi is meeting customers’ power needs to provide more and better power by making a five-year investment in reliabi