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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Carroll County Digital Campus (Ghent).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Deca Companies
- Address and locality
- Ghent · Carroll County · Kentucky
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000440
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
- Owen Electric Cooperative
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Announced investment
- $4 billion
- Announced jobs
- 300 permanent · 7,400 construction
Provider notes
Energy. Louisville Business First reports Owen Electric Cooperative as the serving utility; the project's own site names East Kentucky Power Cooperative in the supply chain. Deca has committed to fund any infrastructure required by the project and says local utility rates will not increase as a result.
Water. Project materials describe a closed-loop cooling system that is filled once and recirculates rather than drawing continuously from local supply, with daily cooling water use compared to that of 7–10 homes plus ordinary plumbing.
What the source record says
Distinct from the PowerHouse/Poe 'Carrollton Industrial Campus' already tracked in Carroll County: different developer, different site (a several-hundred-acre parcel on Sharon Road east of Ghent, near the Gallatin County line, versus 550 acres south of Carrollton near the Kentucky River). Deca projects roughly $40 million a year in local tax revenue by 2034 ($33M to Carroll County Schools, the balance to the county, library, health department and extension services). The project's own site describes phases 1–3 (site selection, evaluation, power) as complete and phase 4 (permitting/engagement) in progress. No capacity figure has been published. Construction-jobs figures differ slightly between sources (7,400 in the Carroll News-Democrat, 'more than 7,000' in Louisville Business First); the more specific figure is recorded. Coordinates are the Ghent city centroid and are approximate — the parcel has not been mapped publicly.
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
- 2026-06-24 · source-reported proposed
Carroll County Fiscal Court approved and signed a letter to the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority supporting Deca's application for state tax incentives; the letter was described as neither approving nor disapproving the project itself.
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.
- DECA proposing $4B data center in Carroll County · Carroll News-Democrat / Madison Courier
- Carroll County Digital Campus — project information site (Deca) · Deca
- Louisville developer eyes second $9.6B hyperscale data center in Carroll County (describes the separate DECA project east of Ghent, $4B, Owen Electric Cooperative) · Louisville Business First (via Yahoo News)
- See where data center developers are looking to build in Kentucky (project tracker: Carroll County, Deca Companies, planned) · Hoptown Chronicle / Kentucky Lantern
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Ghent, Carroll County, KY · OpenStreetMap
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID deca-ghent-carroll-county-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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000440
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.
Location and precision
- Ghent, KY · Carroll (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Deca Companies
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.
- Status history: 2026-06-24 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Owen Electric Cooperative
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $4 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 300 permanent · 7,400 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-15
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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