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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- TenKey LandCo I LLC
- Address and locality
- Franklin · Simpson County · Kentucky
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001437
What the source record says
Site: 421 Steele Road (Steele Road near Exit 2 on I-65), Franklin, Simpson County, KY. Coordinates are approximate for that I-65 exit area within Franklin city limits. Three 200,000 sq ft buildings plus on-site natural gas power generation planned. End hyperscaler not publicly identified; Simpson County Judge-Executive Mason Barnes refused to sign NDA and called the pitch full of red flags. Data center opposition became a factor in May 2026 local primary elections in Simpson County. Fix: investmentUsd corrected from $1.6B to $4.8B — LPM confirms total project is 'nearly $5 billion'; the $1.6B figure in the original record is the per-building cost (each of three 200,000 sq ft facilities costs approximately $1.6B, totaling ~$4.8B).
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
- 2024 · reported proposed
TenKey LandCo first approaches Franklin; city council and planning commission vote unanimously to reject proposed zoning change; project internally called Project Lionsgate/Blackjack
- 2026-03 · reported proposed
Franklin Planning & Zoning Commission approves preliminary development plan 3-2 after two prior defeats
- 2026-04 · reported proposed
Citizens group files suit to overturn P&Z approval; TenKey's own lawsuit against Simpson County over land use ordinance ongoing
Sources and attribution
- Second lawsuit filed over proposed data center in Simpson County · WKYU Public Media
- Data center developer sues Simpson County government over land use ordinance · Louisville Public Media
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID tenkey-franklin-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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