Paducah Data Center Campus
Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Owner not resolved
- Capacity
- 1,800 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- McCracken County
- State
- Kentucky
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- MISO
Location and nearby
Paducah Data Center Campus is on record as proposed in McCracken County, Kentucky. A record puts its capacity at 1,800 MW. 5 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 1 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 2.1 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 2.1 mi Proposed 11.5 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 2.1 mi approximate
Quad State Internet PAH1 Colocation
Operating · McCracken County, KY
- 5.7 mi approximate
Operating · McCracken County, KY
- 8.8 mi approximate
Quad State Internet METRO1 Colocation
Operating · Massac County, IL
- 11.5 mi approximate
Proposed · McCracken County, KY
- 11.5 mi approximate
Operating · Marshall County, KY
What is on record
Owner
Owner not resolved
Filed by: Brookfield
- Capacity
- 1,800 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Brookfield
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 19, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: proposed|; source press
About this data
Evidence
Directory listing only
One or more public directories list it. We have not matched it to a filing.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
tracker lead. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Paducah Data Center Campus: https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2026/07/29/doe-announces-paducah-data-center-campus-with-100b-private-inves US-KY | Context | url=https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2026/07/29/doe-announces-paducah-data-center-campus-with-100b-private-investment | Aug 19, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=brookfield-paducah-ky | Aug 19, 2026 last changed on the server |
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