Kentucky · Data center record
Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)
- Status
- Proposed
- Place
- Russell (portions in Boyd County and City of Ashland), Kentucky
- County
- Greenup, Boyd
- Company
- Rubix Data Centers (subsidiary of Submer Group, Barcelona; Rubix formed June 2026, CEO John Eland, London); consultant Gateway City Energy / Gateway City Consulting (St. Louis, Chris Honstain); engineering Nuclei (Ben Mitten)
- End user
- Undisclosed 'big-name' tenant to be determined after site purchase
- Type
- hyperscale AI
- Utility
- Kentucky Power (AEP)
- Power
- first phase about 155 MW initial phase (Kentucky Power talks targeting Nov 2027), up to 2,000 MW
- Water
- Russell or Ashland municipal supply proposed; developer describes closed-loop design, not measured consumption
- Investment
- 8-12 billion developer infrastructure estimate, excluding computing equipment; other published scopes differ
- Jobs
- construction: 3,000 at peak (over about 5 years), permanent: 200 full-time (average salary 125,000 dollars) per company; 200-300 per Honstain
- Incentives
- Developer says it may seek equipment sales-tax exemption; no confirmed site-specific award recorded
Exact site not published; shown at county level. The dot is placed inside the county for the map and is not the site, its address or a parcel.
Dated record.
- Reported final closing deadline with Cleveland-Cliffs; outcome to be confirmed
- Deadline extended again to Oct 15 ('no more extensions'); Boyd J-E Chaney says county will wait for Russell
- Cleveland-Cliffs closing deadline extended from Aug 31 to Sept 25
- Ashland adopts restrictive data center zoning leaving about 20 acres of its Ashland Works portion usable
- Rubix town hall in Russell: 55 million dollars Cleveland-Cliffs purchase agreement; asks city to lift moratorium by Aug 31
- Mayor's letter to community discloses Rubix proposal and Q&A
Sources.
- glasgownews1.comglasgownews1.com
- www.dailyindependent.comwww.dailyindependent.com
- www.dailyindependent.comwww.dailyindependent.com
- www.dailyindependent.comwww.dailyindependent.com
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