16.5 million gallons in 132 days
The City of Southaven bills MZX Tech for water at 2875 Stanton Road like it bills anyone else, and those bills are public records. Someone requested them four times. This is what the meter says.
The meter reads
Account 00014274, customer 88001, MZX TECH, service address 2875 STANTON. Southaven bills water in hundreds of cubic feet (CCF); one CCF is 748.05 gallons. Every figure in this table is copied from the “Amount Used” column of a bill in the City's production.
| Read period | Days | Meter in | Meter out | CCF used | Gallons | Water charged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Nov – 07 Dec 2025 | 12 | 0 | 10,392 | 10,392 | 7,773,756 | $40,009.20 |
| 07 Dec – 06 Jan 2026 | 30 | 10,392 | 13,828 | 3,436 | 2,570,307 | $13,228.60 |
| 06 Jan – 05 Feb 2026 | 30 | 13,828 | 15,932 | 2,104 | 1,573,901 | $8,100.40 |
| 05 Feb – 07 Mar 2026 | 30 | 15,932 | 19,713 | 3,781 | 2,828,385 | $14,556.85 |
| 07 Mar – 06 Apr 2026 | 30 | 19,713 | 22,113 | 2,400 | 1,795,325 | $9,240.00 |
| Total | 132 | 22,113 | 16,541,674 | $85,135.05 |
Bars are scaled to the largest billed period. Meter-out on each row equals meter-in on the next, and the periods sum exactly to the closing read of 22,113 — the series is internally consistent with no gaps.
What that is, in ordinary terms
The household comparison uses the common US figure of roughly 300 gallons per household per day. The peak figure is the first billed period: 10,392 CCF over twelve days.
The 25 November – 7 December bill shows a previous read of zero and covers only twelve days. Asked about it, the City of Southaven's Utilities Department Billing Manager answered directly:
We bill a month behind. The first bills usually either a small amount of days or longer than 30 days… This one only had 12 days so we could get the account started billing since there was already usage and an account had not been set up for that account.
There are three different accounts for this one address..
00014274 — 00014275 — 00700460
So the 10,392 CCF is not twelve days of use. By the City's own account it is consumption that had already occurred before a billing account existed for it, caught up in the first invoice. The four full monthly periods that follow are unambiguous and average 2,930 CCF — about 2.2 million gallons a month.
Before the data center
The same customer number, on the older account 00700460 (“2875 STANTON – POWER PLANT”), shows what the site used before construction ramped:
| Read period | CCF used | Gallons | Charged |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Aug – 08 Sep 2025 | 14 | 10,473 | $154.00 |
| 08 Sep – 08 Oct 2025 | 132 | 98,743 | $508.20 |
Fourteen CCF in three weeks, then 132 in a month. Ten weeks later the new account was billing 10,392. A second meter at 2875 Stanton Rd, account 00014275, registered 192 CCF in December 2025 and has read flat at 192 — zero use — on every bill since.
What we checked, and one thing we nearly got wrong
The City's water-bill productions are scans. Machine-read text from them is unreliable, so every figure on this page was transcribed by eye from the bill image, and every bill was checked for who it is addressed to before any number was used.
Most of the bills in the fourth production are not MZX Tech's. They are billed to GXO Supply Chain Inc at 2400 Stateline Rd W — a different company, on different accounts (00012324 / 00012326, customer 84062). Their usage appears nowhere in our totals. If you see figures such as 938, 706 or 259 CCF attributed to xAI anywhere, they are GXO's meter, not xAI's.
2400 Stateline Rd W does appear in the Foundation's request to the DeSoto County Tax Assessor as a project-related property, so the address matters — but the water account there belongs to another business, and we will not blur the two.
What the bills cannot tell you
Southaven's water comes from the Memphis Sand aquifer, the same groundwater the whole region draws on. Metered municipal consumption is only part of a data center's water picture: a site may also hold its own permitted wells, recycle cooling water, or draw surface water, and none of that appears on a city utility bill.
So this page reports exactly what it can prove — the water the City sold and billed — and nothing beyond it. The rest requires records the Foundation has requested: well permits and withdrawal reporting from MDEQ, and any water-supply agreement between the City and the company.
Every bill charges 7% sales tax on the water — $5,959.45 across the five periods. The state waived sales tax on the data center's computing equipment. It did not waive it on the water.