A county’s data center moratorium doesn’t include a small city considering huge project

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 ...

'Enormous subsidies': Tax breaks for Kentucky data centers raise alarm

As developers plan Kentucky data center investments of eye-watering proportions, tax exemptions could quickly balloon into ...

‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm

An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer and her family rejected an offer of more than $26 million to give over roughly half of their 1,200-acre family farm to an unnamed company planning a massive data center ...

Developer behind massive KY data center project thinks it can double in size

Bitcoin mining firm TeraWulf, Inc. plans to construct what would become one of the largest AI data centers in the Bluegrass ...
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Kentucky’s Data Center Tax Incentive: What Hyperscale Developers Need to Know (Part 5)

With an understanding of taxes in hand, now we talk QDC, as in qualified data centers. One of the points in favor of Kentucky being a great place for hyperscale data centers traces to ...

Map shows where draft rules would allow data centers in Louisville | Exclusive

Draft rules limit data centers mainly to Louisville's industrial areas, raising questions about adding to existing health and environmental concerns.

What each of Lexington’s at-large council candidates thinks about data centers

Five of the six candidates outright opposed the construction of hyperscale data centers anywhere in Fayette County.