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 […]
Paducah Mayor George Bray calls the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in McCracken County the ideal site for a hyperscale data center. When the plant was enriching uranium, initially for the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons and then for nuclear power plant fuel, it had the ability to use over 3 gigawatts of power and […]
An international company wants to build a hyperscale data center — consuming the equivalent of more than 10% of the electricity produced in the state of Kentucky during the summer — at the site of the former site of the AK Steel mill in Eastern Kentucky. The data center developer Rubix Data Centers is a […]
