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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Brookfield
- Address and locality
- 5501 Hobbs Road · Kevil · McCracken County · Kentucky
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,800 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000211
What the source record says
Announced 2026-07-29 on part of DOE's former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (a Superfund site). Brookfield develops/operates the AI/HPC campus; NextEra builds dedicated adjacent generation (see linked power_generation record nextera-paducah-generation-mccracken-ky). First components could come online as soon as 2028; construction expected complete 2031. Investment reported as 'more than $100 billion' — recorded as $100,000,000,000.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Energy Department Announces Partnership to Expand Reliable, Affordable Energy Access and Power America's AI Future in Western Kentucky · U.S. Department of Energy
- AI data center coming to Western Kentucky · WBKO
- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (USDOE) | Superfund Site Profile · U.S. EPA
- DOE Site in Western Kentucky Revitalized with Data Center Campus and Dedicated Energy Project · PR Newswire (Brookfield / NextEra Energy / Big Rivers Electric / Jackson Purchase Energy / Paducah Power System)
- Paducah American Energy Hub — project site (1.8 GW utility load, 4.6 GW dedicated generation, 2032) · NextEra Energy Resources
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID brookfield-nextera-paducah-site-mccracken-ky. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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