Utilities say their rules protect ratepayers against big data centers. Some argue more can be done.

By: Liam Niemeyer

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: June 15, 2026

Words: 1,342

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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At a press conference earlier this month, a reporter told Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that people in Boyd and Greenup counties had been “caught off guard” by a deal local officials unveiled to bring a very large data center to the area.

A number of Boyd County residents had packed a town hall the day before to lambast county judge-executives and other local leaders in part over concerns about what a proposed hyperscale data …

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