A data center was just proposed near you. Start here.
You probably found out from a neighbor, a news story, or a sign at the end of a road. Here’s what the words mean and what the process actually is.
This site explains what a proposed data center involves, in plain words. Every number on it links to the source it came from, and anything we couldn’t confirm is marked as unverified instead of stated as fact. It doesn’t tell you whether to support or oppose a project.
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- Kentucky: what’s actually proposed
Carroll County has two separate projects, not one.[1][2] Plus the executive order signed in August 2026, the state tax exemption, and the load numbers the utility filed with regulators.
- Power and the grid
What a gigawatt of new demand means, and who pays for the wires and plants that serve it.
- Water
How cooling works, why “closed loop” is the phrase to ask about, and how the water and power answers trade off against each other.
- Noise
What actually makes the sound, what the reported decibel levels are, and why standard meters miss part of it.
- Construction traffic
What happened on the roads around one large build in Louisiana, and why those numbers may or may not transfer.
- Taxes and incentives
Two different tax questions that get mixed up constantly: the state sales tax exemption on equipment, and local property tax.
- Property values
The studies genuinely disagree with each other. Here’s what each one found.
- Zoning and hearings
How a Kentucky county approval normally works, and what happens when a county has no zoning to trigger a hearing at all.
- Write a public comment
What a comment does, and a template you can adapt whether you support the project, oppose it, or haven’t decided.
- All sources
Every citation on the site, grouped by page, with what we verified and what we didn’t.
How to read this site
Numbers and claims carry a numbered superscript, like the two in the Kentucky line above. Each one jumps to the source at the bottom of that page. Click through and read the source yourself if a number matters to your decision.
When a source is an advocacy group, an industry group, or a developer, we say so next to the claim. Developer-commissioned job and revenue numbers are labeled as developer-commissioned every time they appear.
Some things we couldn’t verify. Those are marked in the text with a Reported, not verified label and listed on the sources page. We’d rather show you the gap than paper over it.
What this site is not
It isn’t legal advice, and it isn’t a campaign. There’s no petition, no mailing list, and no ask. If you want to be involved, the useful move is usually to find out which body decides and when it meets. That’s what the zoning and hearings page is for.