Federal government to turn a Kentucky uranium plant into an AI data center and gas power complex
The US Department of Energy and private investors are transforming a former uranium plant in Paducah, Kentucky, into a $100 billion AI data center complex. The project will include its own on-site natural gas and battery storage power plant and is expected to create thousands of jobs by 2031.
The U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with private investors, is undertaking a massive $100 billion project to convert a decommissioned Cold War-era uranium plant in Paducah, Kentucky, into a state-of-the-art AI data center complex. This ambitious development is designed to be self-sufficient, incorporating its own natural gas and battery storage power plant directly on-site to fulfill its energy requirements.
Officials anticipate that this significant investment and construction effort will generate thousands of new jobs in the western Kentucky region. The entire complex is projected to be fully operational, with construction reaching completion, by the year 2031.