The mayor of Gallatin, Tennessee says a hyperscale Meta data center is the city’s largest taxpayer and has done a lot of charitable giving in the community. But two years into operation, residents in the northern Tennessee town still have concerns about its effect on utilities, the environment, and property values.

A Kentucky GOP lawmaker pushed back against Trump’s social media post, which said communities resisting data centers “want to end up being backwards and poor.”

Elon Musk’s xAI runs one of the nation’s largest data centers in Memphis. It’s powered by about 60 gas turbines that emit a loud, unsettling noise.

As data center proposals spring up in communities across Kentucky, residents want more answers about their would-be neighbors from developers and their own public officials.

The state has only collected 3% of what it had anticipated from a new hemp tax.

Opposition to hyperscale data centers is stoking bipartisanship in Kentucky, with Republicans and Democrats finding common cause in their resistance to local proposals.

The Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center project applications, while Burgin residents blasted an annexation proposal that would still allow one.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear issued an executive order Thursday to require data center companies demonstrate a commitment to local communities and eliminate harmful impacts.

A Kentucky environmental advocacy group is appealing its rejected bid to halt the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing process for Global Laser Enrichment’s planned, first-of-its-kind Paducah laser uranium enrichment facility.

The U.S. Department of Justice has settled a civil lawsuit against Ascend Elements, which was once building a massive battery plant in western Kentucky. The company was accused of inflating the cost of labor and construction for a battery recycling plant in Christian County that would serve the electric vehicle industry.