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A spokesperson for the Kentucky Association of Counties told the Lantern in an email that Woodford County is the first Kentucky county the organization is aware of to pass such a permanent ban on data center construction.
Under the current system of fiscal triggers, the soonest the state legislature could vote to reduce the income tax rate would be in 2029.
A proposed hyperscale data center could bring millions in tax revenue to Burgin and its schools, but newly obtained records reveal the project could also require up to 1.3 gigawatts of power.
In a Thursday phone interview with the Lantern, the developer said he had subsequently apologized to the woman and that his intent “was not to intimidate.”
The proposed regulations from the wildlife management agency would expand the bag limit.
To close the housing supply gap entirely by 2035, one leader said, Kentucky builders would have to roughly double their current rate of construction by building 28,712 units a year.
The data center project is among a flurry of activity surrounding the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant over the past 12 months, spurred by the Trump administration’s two-pronged push to promote the siting of data centers and promote the development of nuclear energy.
In addition, the county’s planning and zoning commission is also holding a public hearing on July 23 on a draft ordinance to site and regulate data center construction in the county.
Developers and some local elected leaders have advocated for the projects, pointing to a potential boon in local tax revenue.
