operational locality centroid
Core Scientific Calvert City
Calvert City city · KY
Documented capacity: 150 MW
5 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved
Open project evidence record →Kentucky / KY
Kentucky data center and compute infrastructure research
This state has reviewed research coverage from the national 50-state Atlas. Exact project locations are published only after source evidence establishes coordinates; state-level, regulatory, utility and prospective evidence remains visible without inventing map precision.
15reviewed research rows
5confirmed rows
10accepted prospective rows
Animated state view
Kentucky
State research coverage
Kentucky is part of the 50-state research coverage.
The current reviewed research set contains 15 accepted evidence records for Kentucky, including 5 confirmed and 10 accepted prospective rows, with a research cutoff of 2026-08-20. These are evidence records, not a count of unique facilities.
Prospective records remain labeled as proposals, applications, forecasts, targets, queue entries or other non-operational states. The Atlas does not convert state-level or locality evidence into a precise project point unless a controlling source supports that location.
Evidence-backed project locations
Kentucky project points
Source-exact records use supported coordinates. Dashed rings mark Census address-range geocodes, not rooftop or surveyed coordinates. Qualified research candidates are shown separately at Census locality or county centroids when that is the strongest source-backed geography; those markers do not claim a precise site coordinate.
1 mapped location
DOE Paducah AI Data Center and Energy CampusPaducahResearch candidate · locality centroid · exact site coordinate not claimed · announcedPartnership to redevelop portions of DOE's Paducah Site into a privately funded data center campus accompanied by new generation and storage infrastructure.https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-partnership-expand-reliable-affordable-energy-access-and-powerOpen source →
Documented project / site inventory
9 project, facility, campus or documented site records are tracked for KY.
This project layer combines available project-profile, permit/intent and civic-impact evidence. Records retain unresolved location precision and limitations rather than inventing coordinates.
operational exact coordinate
CyrusOne CIN6 Florence
FLORENCE · KY
Operator / developer: CyrusOne
5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate
unknown locality centroid
Hawesville KY
Hawesville · KY
Documented capacity: 401 MW
44 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved
under construction state or regional
Justified Data
KY
Documented capacity: 480 MW
5 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred
Open project evidence record →proposed or review locality
Muskie Data Campus
EastPark Industrial Park, Grayson · KY
Operator / developer: TeraWulf
Documented capacity: 1000 MW
7 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred
Open project evidence record →proposed or review locality centroid
Paducah AI Data Center Campus
Paducah city · KY
Documented capacity: 1800 MW
5 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved
Open project evidence record →unknown locality centroid
Paducah Campus
Paducah · KY
20 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved
proposed or review locality centroid
PowerHouse Louisville
Louisville city · KY
Documented capacity: 400 MW
5 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved
Open project evidence record →unknown locality centroid
TeraWulf Lease
Hawesville · KY
20 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved
Public records and supporting context
Development context
These dated decisions, filings, research collections and supporting-infrastructure records provide context. They are not additional data-center facilities.
Public agency starting point
City of Frankfort Planning and Community Development
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky · Director, Planning and Community Development
Contact about: Could you direct us to current public city planning packets, adopted plans and the city-specific development-review process?
Source status: historical org page evidence. Verify the linked public source before relying on an assignment because staff and routing can change.
KY data-center research sources
This record is a regional research collection or market overview. It is not an individual data-center facility.
Read reference context →State contact routing
Where to start in Kentucky
Current source-backed route
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
Contact about: Public-interest analysis of benefits, costs, local evidence and unresolved questions.
This route was retained from current or recently revalidated public-source evidence.
Who to contact
Public contacts for data center and compute issues in Kentucky
1 source-backed contact records are available for planning, zoning, permitting, public comments, economic development, project questions and related infrastructure issues. Verify the linked source before relying on a contact because assignments can change.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Irma Johnson
Coordinator II, Office of Regional Stewardship & Public Engagement · Kentucky State University
Relevant to: HBCU and place-based anchor institution · Frankfort / Regional and statewide service area/Commonwealth of Kentucky
Exchange notes on how KSU's civic-engagement and regional-stewardship work helps residents understand consequential public decisions, and explore a non-commercial conversation about source-backed research, public records, civic tools, and plain-language…
Contact details: Irma Johnson; Coordinator II, Office of Regional Stewardship & Public Engagement; Kentucky State University; irma.johnson@kysu.edu
Limitation: Do not claim KSU has a data-center, broadband, or digital-infrastructure program; do not claim Irma Johnson personally handles this subject beyond the published coordinator role…