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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Rubix Data Centers (Submer Group)
- Address and locality
- Russell · Greenup County · Kentucky
- Official metro area
- Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 2,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- 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-001269
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.
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 425 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Water. Rubix says the data center would use approximately 55 million gallons of water annually; Route Fifty notes the Russell Water Company produces over 500 million gallons annually. No cooling method has been identified in the cited reporting, so coolingType is left unset.
Community. The City of Russell passed a six-month moratorium on the construction and operation of data centers within city limits in June 2026. Rubix answered a city due-diligence questionnaire and scheduled a public meeting with county officials and residents.
What the source record says
Proposed on roughly 425 acres of the former AK Steel Ashland Works brownfield (now Cleveland-Cliffs property) along the Ohio River; reporting says the majority of the project area falls inside the City of Russell in Greenup County, with the remainder in Boyd County. Rubix Data Centers is a subsidiary of Barcelona-based Submer Group. Infrastructure investment is reported as a range of $8–12 billion, so no single investmentUsd figure is asserted. The company says construction would employ thousands and the operating facility 200 people at an average salary of $125,000, and that Russell could expect tens of millions of dollars in local property tax revenue. Coordinates are the Russell city centroid and are approximate — the mapped Ashland Works footprint extends east into Boyd County, roughly 3 km from this pin. Separate from, and roughly twice the size of, the TeraWulf Muskie campus already tracked at EastPark in the same corner of the state.
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.
- Developer proposes hyperscale data center at former Eastern Kentucky steel mill · Route Fifty / Kentucky Lantern
- Data centers need massive power. They're eyeing Kentucky's idle industrial sites to get it. (AK Steel mill, Boyd and Greenup counties, 2 GW, Spain-based developer) · Hoptown Chronicle / Kentucky Lantern
- Data centers eyeing Kentucky's idle industrial sites to get massive power · Floyd County Times / Kentucky Lantern
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Russell, Greenup County, KY · OpenStreetMap
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID rubix-ashland-works-russell-greenup-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-001269
Licensed directory row.
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Russell, KY · Greenup (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Rubix Data Centers (Submer Group)
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.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 425 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 2,000 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.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-15
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: 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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