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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Murray Industries Pineville Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Murray Industries
- Address and locality
- Pineville · Bell County · Kentucky
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 360 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001021
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
- Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
Provider notes
Energy. Murray Industries says LG&E and KU have roughly 360 MW of additional capacity available near the site, which retains electrical infrastructure left over from coal mining. In a July 31, 2026 written update to the Kentucky Public Service Commission in Case No. 2025-00313, the utilities said electrical substation construction 'has commenced at the project site,' characterized the 'Pineville project' as having at least an 80% or 'imminent' likelihood of coming into operation, and said a reimbursement agreement had been executed with a tenant agreement in the works.
Community. Hundreds of residents filled the old courthouse in Pineville for a June 26, 2026 special-called fiscal court meeting to oppose the project over water quality, noise and road impacts; the fiscal court gave first reading to a moratorium that day and passed a two-year ban on data center construction in July 2026. Residents subsequently reported that land-clearing work continued despite the moratorium.
What the source record says
Lexington-based Murray Industries proposes a hyperscale data center on land along the Bell–Knox county line that its owner bought three years ago to mine coal and that retains electrical infrastructure from that use. The owner describes the investment as 'billions of dollars' (no specific figure published) and says newer closed-loop cooling would use far less water than older designs. Status is recorded as proposed, not under construction: the utilities' PSC filing reports substation construction at the site, but the data center itself is subject to a two-year county moratorium. The exact parcel has not been publicly identified, so coordinates are the Pineville (county seat) centroid and are approximate only — the site may be several kilometres from this pin.
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
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- Bell County residents pack courthouse to oppose data center construction · WYMT
- Bell County passed a data center moratorium. Residents worry that work continues. · Kentucky Lantern (via Yahoo News)
- Bell County residents pack courthouse, vow to fight data center over water, noise, and roads · Yahoo News
- See where data center developers are looking to build in Kentucky (project tracker: Bell County, Murray Industries, planned) · Hoptown Chronicle / Kentucky Lantern
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Pineville, Bell County, KY · OpenStreetMap
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID murray-industries-pineville-bell-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-001021
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
- Pineville, KY · Bell (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Murray Industries
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: 360 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: Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU)
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
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
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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