Data Centers Atlas: Kentucky

Dated record: Muskie Data Campus

Recorded event date: October 29, 2026

Kentucky Power asks landowners for route feedback by this date

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Muskie Data Campus

Recorded event date: October 15, 2026

Kentucky Power open house on Muskie transmission line routes (scheduled)

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)

Recorded event date: October 15, 2026

Reported final closing deadline with Cleveland-Cliffs; outcome to be confirmed

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Mason County hyperscale data center and technology campus (Meta)

Recorded event date: October 13, 2026

Judge-Executive McNeill names Meta; Fiscal Court unanimously approves agreement/resolution

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Mason County hyperscale data center and technology campus (Meta)

Recorded event date: October 13, 2026

WCPO reports a lawsuit has been filed over the project; no court ruling yet

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Mason County hyperscale data center and technology campus (Meta)

Recorded event date: October 6, 2026

County attorney presents development/community benefits agreement: Crisham LLC, 396 MW initial phase, IRB/PILOT structure, at least 130M infrastructure

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Muskie Data Campus

Recorded event date: October 5, 2026

Amended Kentucky Power ESA (executed Oct 1) doubles contracted capacity to 1 GW, moves phase 2 to 2029, adds 100 million dollars bill credits (PSC approval required)

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)

Recorded event date: September 24, 2026

Deadline extended again to Oct 15 ('no more extensions'); Boyd J-E Chaney says county will wait for Russell

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)

Recorded event date: September 4, 2026

Cleveland-Cliffs closing deadline extended from Aug 31 to Sept 25

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Justified Data Campus

Recorded event date: August 21, 2026

Electric-service agreement approval dated August 21, reported in TeraWulf’s August 24 announcement. Up to 482 MW is service capacity, not IT delivery, building approval or operation.

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

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Public concern on the record: Justified Data Campus

Residents raised concerns about electricity costs, water, noise, pollution, health and wildlife at the July 27, 2026 Hawesville public-comment meeting, as recorded by the Kentucky Public Service Commission. Its later approval addresses the electric-service agreement and requires further filings. That tariff approval does not itself establish measured environmental conditions or resolve every concern.

Record status: unknown. The later disposition of the documented environmental and nuisance concerns is unknown in this bounded review. The PSC approved the electric-service agreement within its stated rates-and-terms scope. Later company modeling and a demolition monitoring plan are not independent measured compliance, agency adoption of technical conclusions or evidence that every public concern was resolved.

Event date: July 27, 2026

Source publication date: August 21, 2026

Disposition date: Not established

Concern sources checked: October 18, 2026

The original final order expressly records that the public comment meeting occurred July 27, 2026. This is separate from the August 21 order, earlier scheduled meeting locations and later company filing/preparation dates. The actual public docket posts the final order August 21, 2026; the original signed entry page independently gives that day. Later company noise publication August 27 and demolition-air-plan publication September 28 are separately bound to the post-case table.

Raised or recorded by Residents.

Company statement published by an agency or court

Justified DataPower / TeraWulf filed a consultant noise assessment on August 27 and a demolition-air monitoring plan on September 28, 2026. The consultant predicts sound within its referenced guidelines and proposes dust monitoring during demolition. These are company-commissioned submissions, not measured operating results or an independent agency finding.

Both actual originals are company-commissioned ERM submissions published in the same PSC post-case file, with the exact Justified/TeraWulf/Hawesville identity. September 28 is the latest selected company filing publication; the noise report was separately public August 27. The demolition-air plan addresses demolition dust and is not relabeled as the requested generator air-modeling analysis or an express answer to every water/power/health concern.

Response publication date: September 28, 2026

Response sources checked: October 18, 2026

Counts describe attributed documentation, not harm or severity. Allegations, procedural outcomes and published replies retain their separate scope.

News report: Panattoni Burgin Data Center Campus

Kentucky Public Radio reported opposition to Panattoni's Burgin-area proposal at a July 30, 2026 planning hearing and later annexation discussions, including questions about water, electricity and control over farmland development. The report distinguishes a county moratorium from city proceedings. It does not establish current annexation, a final city prohibition, measured impacts or a verified project withdrawal.

Record status: unknown. The later formal annexation, city/county applicability and proposal disposition are unknown in this bounded original-report review. A reported county moratorium or delayed city vote does not establish a permanent city ban, project withdrawal, permit denial or resolution of all resource concerns.

Event date: July 30, 2026

Source publication date: August 17, 2026

Disposition date: Not established

Concern sources checked: October 18, 2026

The original caption and article expressly identify the July 30, 2026 planning hearing/commission action. Other relative Tuesday meetings and later annexation discussion are not converted to unverified exact event dates. The original report displays August 17, 2026 publication, distinct from the July 30 reported hearing and this source check.

Raised or recorded by Kentucky Public Radio.

Kentucky Public Radio

Counts describe attributed documentation, not harm or severity. Allegations, procedural outcomes and published replies retain their separate scope.

Dated record: Muskie Data Campus

Recorded event date: August 5, 2026

Q2 earnings call: CEO Paul Prager says Muskie could expand to as much as 2 GW

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)

Recorded event date: July 23, 2026

Ashland adopts restrictive data center zoning leaving about 20 acres of its Ashland Works portion usable

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)

Recorded event date: July 21, 2026

Rubix town hall in Russell: 55 million dollars Cleveland-Cliffs purchase agreement; asks city to lift moratorium by Aug 31

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Muskie Data Campus

Recorded event date: July 14, 2026

Greenup County moratorium adopted, exempting industrial parks/EastPark; Boyd County follows 2026-07-21 with EastPark exemption

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus (also listed as Rubix Russell Campus)

Recorded event date: July 10, 2026

Mayor's letter to community discloses Rubix proposal and Q&A

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Justified Data Campus

Recorded event date: July 6, 2026

TeraWulf announced an Anthropic lease for approximately 401 MW critical IT at Justified. Initial second-half-2027 and full early-2028 delivery are future targets.

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

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News report: PowerHouse Data Centers - Louisville (Camp Ground Road)

Louisville Public Media reported that residents at a March 5 hearing raised questions about pollution, water supplies, electricity demand and local development rules for the Camp Ground Road project proposed by Poe Companies and PowerHouse. The outlet reported approval of revised plans; that vote does not establish that the concerns were resolved or that environmental effects occurred.

Record status: unknown. The present disposition of these reported concerns has not been independently established. Approval, construction and company statements do not establish resolution or measured effects.

Event date: March 5, 2026

Source publication date: March 5, 2026

Disposition date: Not established

Concern sources checked: October 19, 2026

March 5 is the hearing date identified in the article and its dated photo caption, separate from this source check. The article carries this explicit first publication date. The October 19 source check is separate.

Raised or recorded by Louisville Public Media.

Company statement reported by an outlet

Poe Companies and PowerHouse were represented by a lawyer whom Louisville Public Media quoted as saying that the electricity and water utilities had assured the developers they could meet demand. This is a reported developer statement, not verified available capacity.

The same hearing report directly includes the representative for the developers answering the water and electricity questions. The publication basis is the outlet report, not a newly located company statement.

Response publication date: March 5, 2026

Response sources checked: October 19, 2026

Louisville Public Media

Counts describe attributed documentation, not harm or severity. Allegations, procedural outcomes and published replies retain their separate scope.

News report: Oldham County

Louisville Public Media reported residents' opposition to Western Hospitality Partners' Oldham County proposals and a temporary county moratorium covering data-center applications. The report distinguishes an original farmland proposal from a smaller replacement proposal. This is county-level reporting, not an independently inspected ordinance, current ban, final court outcome or an allegation assigned to every county facility.

Record status: unknown. The current legal duration of the reported moratorium and later disposition of all land-use objections are unknown in this bounded review. A reported temporary pause or replacement proposal is not a verified permanent ban, final project withdrawal or court merits decision.

Event date: Not established

Source publication date: July 2, 2025

Disposition date: Not established

Concern sources checked: October 18, 2026

The original article describes a Tuesday vote but an exact independently verified vote/filing date was not established in this bounded review. Event date stays unknown; publication is not substituted. The original county report displays July 2, 2025 publication. Separate August 17, 2026 reporting recalls Oldham context while focusing on other Kentucky proposals; that is not a new original ordinance publication.

Raised or recorded by Louisville Public Media.

Counts describe attributed documentation, not harm or severity. Allegations, procedural outcomes and published replies retain their separate scope.

Dated record: PowerHouse Data Centers - Louisville (Camp Ground Road)

Recorded event date: January 16, 2025

PowerHouse, Poe and LG&E announced the Louisville development and utility-access forecasts. The date is an announcement, not a proved construction start, power delivery or opening.

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.

Dated record: Ebon International Big Sandy cryptomining / data processing complex

Recorded event date: August 28, 2023

PSC rejects the contract, citing ratepayer risk

A recorded date retains its original source and phase scope. A scheduled date does not confirm that the event happened or permission was granted. Source-check dates are separate.