The Payments

The sequence

Dates below are taken from the face of each document. We present them in order and without commentary about motive, because the order is the fact and motive is not something a contract can show.

• 23 December 2025
  Memorandum of Understanding — $3,460,000 roads

  MZX Tech, LLC and the City agree on $3,460,000 for improvements to Stateline Road and Tulane Road — the roads serving the site.

  MOU for Stateline Rd, released by the City

• 29 December 2025
  Musk Foundation Grant Agreement — $1,850,000

  A grant to the City from the Musk Foundation. The agreement contains a confidentiality provision at Section 6. Whether a Mississippi municipality can accept a grant conditioned on confidentiality, consistent with the Public Records Act, is a question the City's outside counsel would have had to consider.

  Identified in the City's own records index · requested in full

• 6 January 2026
  Ad Valorem Tax Agreement takes effect 67% abated, 10 years

  The fee-in-lieu agreement's stated Effective Date. Two thirds of the project's property taxes are abated for up to ten assessment years, binding on future boards.

  The Board of Aldermen met that night. We pulled the City's published agenda for 6 January 2026 and read all eighteen items. Here is what it shows.

  The agreement, clause by clause · the agenda in full

• 10 February 2026
  Donation Agreement — $1,380,900 to the Police Department

  MZX Tech LLC donates $1,380,900 to the City of Southaven for the exclusive use of the Southaven Police Department. Signed by Mayor Darren Musselwhite on 2–10–2026.

  SPD Donation Agreement, released by the City

• 24 February 2026
  MDA Certificate of Final Approval executed

  The Mississippi Development Authority's Executive Director signs the certificate that makes the fee-in-lieu final under Miss. Code Ann. § 27-31-104(3).

  Exhibit A to the tax agreement · full application requested from MDA

What the agenda for 6 January 2026 shows

The Ad Valorem Tax Agreement states its Effective Date as 6 January 2026. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen met at 6:00 PM that evening. The City published the agenda. We host it in full; these four items are quoted from it verbatim.

Four observations, and one thing we cannot tell you

1. No public item names the tax agreement. Across all eighteen items, nothing on the published agenda mentions MZX Tech, xAI, “Project Synergy,” ad valorem tax, or a fee-in-lieu — on the day the agreement took effect.
2. Item 18 closed the meeting for economic development. The stated purpose is “Potential Location of Business/Industry to City.” Mississippi permits an executive session for that purpose, and closing one is not by itself improper. What it means here is that the public record of that evening stops at the door.
3. Item 6 is Tulane and Stateline. Those are the two roads named in the $3,460,000 MOU with MZX Tech signed fourteen days earlier, now appearing as an emergency traffic-signal expenditure.
4. Item 13 is two residents on the citizen’s agenda — Jason Haley and Shannon Samsa, the Vice Director and Director of the Safe and Sound Coalition. They put themselves on the record that night.

The police donation, in its own words

The donor is MZX Tech LLC, of 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California. The recipient is the City. The agreement is governed by Mississippi law and states that it supersedes any prior agreements between the parties.

An unsigned counterpart is not by itself evidence of anything improper — parties often sign in counterparts and produce only one. We note it because the released record is the record, and this is what it shows. If a fully executed copy exists, producing it settles the point in a single email.

Where the money went