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Reported geography
Source-reported location for TenKey LandCo Project Lionsgate – Franklin Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- TenKey LandCo I LLC
- Address and locality
- Franklin · Simpson 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
- 24 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001437
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
- Warren Rural Electric Co-op Corp
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $4.8 billion
- Announced jobs
- 150 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2024
Provider notes
Community. Two active lawsuits: (1) TenKey LandCo sues Simpson County in Simpson Circuit Court challenging a December 2025 county ordinance requiring conditional-use permits for data centers, arguing county lacks zoning authority inside Franklin city limits; (2) Franklin Citizens for Responsible Development sues the Franklin P&Z Commission alleging it lacked authority to approve the preliminary plan, which passed 3-2 in March 2026. Prior unanimous rejections by Franklin city council and planning commission. End user never publicly disclosed; developer refused to reveal it without NDAs.
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 · source-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 · source-reported proposed
Franklin Planning & Zoning Commission approves preliminary development plan 3-2 after two prior defeats
- 2026-04 · source-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
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- 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 1.34.1, 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. 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-001437
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): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Franklin, KY · Simpson (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: TenKey LandCo I LLC
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.
- Announced: 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-04 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Warren Rural Electric Co-op Corp
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $4.8 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 150 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-24
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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