Carroll County Digital Campus (Ghent)

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

1. June 24, 2026

   Proposed
   Carroll County Fiscal Court approved and signed a letter to the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority supporting Deca's application for state tax incentives; the letter was described as neither approving nor disapproving the project itself. Source: Carroll News-Democrat / Madison Courier

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 15, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Carroll County Digital Campus (Ghent) in Ghent, Carroll County, Kentucky appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

If you live near this site and something is happening that this page does not show, that is worth telling us. Send us the document and it goes in the record with the source attached. For sites where opposition is already established, see every contested site we track.

Power and water

Louisville Business First reports Owen Electric Cooperative as the serving utility; the project's own site names East Kentucky Power Cooperative in the supply chain. Deca has committed to fund any infrastructure required by the project and says local utility rates will not increase as a result.

Project materials describe a closed-loop cooling system that is filled once and recirculates rather than drawing continuously from local supply, with daily cooling water use compared to that of 7 to 10 homes plus ordinary plumbing.

Notes on the record

Distinct from the PowerHouse/Poe 'Carrollton Industrial Campus' already tracked in Carroll County: different developer, different site (a several-hundred-acre parcel on Sharon Road east of Ghent, near the Gallatin County line, versus 550 acres south of Carrollton near the Kentucky River). Deca projects roughly $40 million a year in local tax revenue by 2034 ($33M to Carroll County Schools, the balance to the county, library, health department and extension services). The project's own site describes phases 1 to 3 (site selection, evaluation, power) as complete and phase 4 (permitting/engagement) in progress. No capacity figure has been published. Construction-jobs figures differ slightly between sources (7,400 in the Carroll News-Democrat, 'more than 7,000' in Louisville Business First); the more specific figure is recorded. Coordinates are the Ghent city centroid and are approximate, the parcel has not been mapped publicly.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

• Carrollton Industrial Campus · Carrollton · PowerHouse Data Centers / Poe Companies7 mi · Proposed · 800 MW · Contested
• Jefferson Proving Ground Data Center · Madison · Undisclosed19 mi · Permitted · Opposed
• Project Lincoln: OC Data Center · La Grange · Western Hospitality Partners29 mi · Cancelled · 600 MW · Opposed
• CyrusOne CIN6 (Florence) · Florence · CyrusOne29 mi · Operating · 5 MW

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