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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Paducah Site AI Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Brookfield
- Address and locality
- 5501 Hobbs Road · Kevil · McCracken County · Kentucky
- Official metro area
- Paducah, KY-IL
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,800 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 22 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000211
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation / Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative / Paducah Power System
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established
- Announced investment
- $100 billion
- Announced jobs
- 600 permanent · 8,000 construction
- Community response
- Not established
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
Provider notes
Energy. Paired with dedicated NextEra Energy generation (2 GW new grid-connected natural gas-fired generation plus up to 2.6 GW battery energy storage) built adjacent to the site; campus supports 'up to 1.8 GW of utility-delivered capacity' by 2032. Power service agreements require Kentucky Public Service Commission approval; follows a Request for Offers issued November 2025.
Water. DOE and the project partners state the campus is designed to use less water than the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant did. No cooling method has been published.
Community. No community reaction reporting found as of 2026-09-10; project was announced 2026-07-29 by the Paducah American Energy Hub coalition on part of the DOE's former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site.
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
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- 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
- DOE Site in Western Kentucky Revitalized with Data Center Campus and Dedicated Energy Project · NextEra Energy / Brookfield (newsroom release, July 29, 2026)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000211
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 5501 Hobbs Road, Kevil, KY · McCracken (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Brookfield
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,800 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation / Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative / Paducah Power System
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $100 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 600 permanent · 8,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-22
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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