JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Standing in front of a large crowd next to the site of the future AWS data center in Ridgeland, Joey Deason took a moment to reflect.
More than eight years ago, Deason was the new executive director of the Madison County Economic Development Authority and making the rounds to local civic clubs and government meetings to sell his vision for the county.
Now, as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate another $12 billion in investments from Amazon Web Services, Deason says that vision has been fulfilled.
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“I want you to look around and I want you to look at what we’ve built and what we’ve accomplished together,” he said. “I don’t think any of us fully imagined that we’d be standing here talking about the first multi-billion-dollar capital investment in the history of Mississippi, but here we are.”
