Paducah Site AI Data Center Campus
Brookfield has proposed a 1800 MW data center in McCracken County, Kentucky (proposed). One source reports this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Capacity
- 1800 MW
- Investment
- $100B
- Reported jobs
- 600
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
Operator
Brookfield
Utility
Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation / Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative / Paducah Power System
Record quality
- Datasets
- 1
- Location
- Street address reported
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- Brookfield
- Stage
- Proposed
- Facility type
- AI data center
Scale
- Reported capacity
- 1800 MW
- Reported investment
- $100B
- Reported jobs
- 600
Site
- City
- Kevil
- County
- McCracken
- State
- Kentucky
- Location precision
- Street address reported
Power and cooling
- Utility
- Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation / Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative / Paducah Power System
- Power source
- Mixed sources
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workload
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | Paducah Site AI Data Center Campus | Proposed | 1800 MW |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Sep 15, 2026 · Record: brookfield-nextera-paducah-site-mccracken-ky
- CAU.S. Department of Energy (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 10, 2026
- CAWBKO (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 15, 2026
- CAU.S. EPA (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 10, 2026
- CA
- CANextEra Energy Resources (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 15, 2026
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 52822327440550
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “Paducah Site AI Data Center Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/paducah-site-ai-data-center-campus-ky-dc_300aa81034a6, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order. Capacity and dates are as reported by the cited sources. “Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
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