LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Developers plan to transform more than 150 acres in Louisville into Kentucky’s first large-scale data center, a project meant to handle massive amounts of data from cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other demands of an increasingly digital world.
The campus on Camp Ground Road just west of Shively will be under construction this year and in use by late 2026, according to Louisville real estate firm Poe Companies and Virginia-based PowerHouse Data Centers. Officials with the joint venture say they’re in talks with a handful of well-known technology companies to occupy the site.
The group of prospective tenants includes “hyperscalers” — tech giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft that need thousands of servers, routers, cables and other components in order to store and process troves of information streaming from cellphones, computers and other gadgets.
“Louisville is just a natural place to locate in the country,” PowerHouse CEO Doug …