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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Undisclosed (Fortune 100 end user; rezoning sought through Mason County officials)
- Address and locality
- Maysville · Mason County · Kentucky
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000915
What the source record says
Reported campus of six data center buildings plus three substations, office space and parking on land rezoned outside Maysville. The end user has not been publicly named; outlets describe it variously as a Fortune 100 and a Fortune 50 US technology company. Capacity figures conflict across sources: the Kentucky Lantern project tracker reports 1.2 GW (recorded here) while WVXU reports 2.2 GW — this is not settled. Construction-jobs figures also conflict (WCPO reports 1,000, LEX18 reports more than 1,500), so only the 400 permanent positions both report are recorded. LEX18 names Eastern Kentucky Power as the utility and WVXU references a Duke Energy Woodsdale substation expansion; because those two accounts are inconsistent, no energy record is asserted. Coordinates are a geocode of Big Pond Pike (reported as the site road, near KY-3056) and are approximate — the parcel boundaries are not published.
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
- 2026-05-22 · reported proposed
Mason County Fiscal Court gave final approval to rezone 28 properties outside Maysville from agricultural to rural industrial, clearing the way for a hyperscale data center campus. The undisclosed company retains final say on whether it develops the site.
Sources and attribution
- Mason County gives final approval on rezoning properties for data center construction · WEKU
- Data center near Maysville sparks debate about land use · WVXU
- Mason County residents weigh billion-dollar data center proposal amid growing concerns · LEX18
- Potential for $1 billion data center sparks debate in rural Mason County · WCPO
- Data centers are being proposed – and sometimes approved – all over state (Kentucky Lantern project tracker: Mason County, undisclosed Fortune 100 company, 1.2 GW, planned) · Kentucky New Era / Kentucky Lantern
- EPIC Report No. 2026-001, Data Centers in Kentucky (§I.B lists Mason County among counties with projects under consideration) · Kentucky Energy Planning and Inventory Commission
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Big Pond Pike, Mason County, KY · OpenStreetMap
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID mason-county-hyperscale-campus-maysville-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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