Editor’s Note: Data center news is coming at us every day. This is the first in an occasional series of stories to keep Lantern readers up to date on the big and small events of an issue that could affect every region of the state. Louisville passed a data center pause, where a data center […]

Diane Floyd said she was watching her husband’s music show earlier this month when she got a message over Facebook. It was from Brian Luftman, the founder of American Farm Investors, one of the companies trying to bring a hyperscale data center to Mercer County.  Luftman threatened to publish a picture of her 2023 mugshot […]

On Tuesday, the Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, the latest turn over months of tumultuous debate in the rural county over whether the community should welcome a hyperscale data center project.  The county’s planning and zoning commission has also advanced an ordinance to regulate the siting and impacts […]