Paducah AI Data Center Campus

McCracken County, KY

Project details

Capacity 1800 MW reported. Status planned. City Paducah. County McCracken. State KY. Grid .

Overview

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on July 29, 2026, a partnership with Brookfield, NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative, and Paducah Power System to redevelop portions of DOE’s Paducah Site into a data-center campus with new energy infrastructure. DOE said the more than $100 billion privately funded investment is expected to create about 8,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent jobs, and that NextEra plans 2 GW of new grid-connected natural gas-fired generation, transmission upgrades, and up to 2.6 GW of battery storage to support a 1.8 GW artificial intelligence and HPC campus. Construction is expected to be completed in 2031. Brookfield was selected to develop and operate the campus after a November 2025 Request for Offers; the power service agreement remains subject to Kentucky Public Service Commission approval. Brookfield’s July 29, 2026, release said that once fully constructed in 2032 the campus will support up to 1.8 GW of utility capacity and over 1.2 GW of compute capacity, backed by up to 4.6 GW of dedicated generation resources. POWER magazine reported Brookfield will lease land from DOE while NextEra owns the dedicated gas and battery resources added in stages as compute load ramps, with Big Rivers providing wholesale service and Jackson Purchase retail delivery. Kentucky’s other mapped campus in this directory is Muskie.

The public map lists one map record, Paducah AI Data Center Campus, 1,800 MW, planned. Reported campus capacity is 1,800 MW.

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Map entries are not a physical building count; campus and building scope may differ across sources.

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