Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country

By: James Branscome

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: September 21, 2026

Words: 1,254

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant’s email, and the consultant’s first concern was that the moratorium Russell had just passed might get in the way. That is how an $8-$12 billion-dollar project that would draw more than a tenth of Kentucky’s summer electricity announced itself,

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