A new crypto mining facility is being pitched for Starkville, Mississippi, and local officials are being told it could lower energy bills for families. That claim is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
The proposal, which surfaced on June 16, 2026, calls for a 30 megawatt facility near a Starkville Utilities substation on Industrial Park Road. If approved, the operation would become the second-largest customer of Starkville Utilities, behind only the city’s largest existing industrial accounts.
What’s actually being proposed
The proposed Starkville facility would pull up to 30 MW of power continuously and would require up to 20,000 gallons of water per day, used primarily for cooling the hardware.
The pitch to local officials centers on a straightforward economic argument: a large new customer signing on to a municipal utility can help spread fixed infrastructure costs across a wider base, theoretically reducing the per-unit cost for everyone else on the grid.
