Data Center Registry
Murray Industries Pineville Data Center
Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky
Murray Industries Pineville Data Center is a proposed data center in Pineville, Kentucky (Bell County), operated by Murray Industries. The public record puts it at 360 MW planned. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Murray Industries
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Pineville, Bell County, KY
- Coordinates
- 36.7620, -83.6949 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 360 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Murray Industries Pineville Data Center in Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky is documented in the public record. Hundreds of residents filled the old courthouse in Pineville for a June 26, 2026 special-called fiscal court meeting to oppose the project over water quality, noise and road impacts; the fiscal court gave first reading to a moratorium that day and passed a two-year ban on data center construction in July 2026.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
Hundreds of residents filled the old courthouse in Pineville for a June 26, 2026 special-called fiscal court meeting to oppose the project over water quality, noise and road impacts; the fiscal court gave first reading to a moratorium that day and passed a two-year ban on data center construction in July 2026. Residents subsequently reported that land-clearing work continued despite the moratorium.
Power and water
Murray Industries says LG&E and KU have roughly 360 MW of additional capacity available near the site, which retains electrical infrastructure left over from coal mining. In a July 31, 2026 written update to the Kentucky Public Service Commission in Case No. 2025-00313, the utilities said electrical substation construction 'has commenced at the project site,' characterized the 'Pineville project' as having at least an 80% or 'imminent' likelihood of coming into operation, and said a reimbursement agreement had been executed with a tenant agreement in the works.
Notes on the record
Lexington-based Murray Industries proposes a hyperscale data center on land along the Bell-Knox county line that its owner bought three years ago to mine coal and that retains electrical infrastructure from that use. The owner describes the investment as 'billions of dollars' (no specific figure published) and says newer closed-loop cooling would use far less water than older designs. Status is recorded as proposed, not under construction: the utilities' PSC filing reports substation construction at the site, but the data center itself is subject to a two-year county moratorium. The exact parcel has not been publicly identified, so coordinates are the Pineville (county seat) centroid and are approximate only, the site may be several kilometres from this pin.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Murray Industries Pineville Data Center in Pineville?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Murray Industries Pineville Data Center in Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky is documented in the public record. Hundreds of residents filled the old courthouse in Pineville for a June 26, 2026 special-called fiscal court meeting to oppose the project over water quality, noise and road impacts; the fiscal court gave first reading to a moratorium that day and passed a two-year ban on data center construction in July 2026.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Murray Industries Pineville Data Center?
The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.
How much water does Murray Industries Pineville Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Murray Industries Pineville Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Murray Industries Pineville Data Center, and how big is it?
Murray Industries is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 360 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Murray Industries Pineville Data Center," updated September 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/murray-industries-pineville-bell-ky.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/murray-industries-pineville-bell-ky, retrieved October 1, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Bell County residents pack courthouse to oppose data center construction · WYMT · retrieved September 21, 2026
- 2.Bell County passed a data center moratorium. Residents worry that work continues. · Kentucky Lantern (via Yahoo News) · retrieved September 15, 2026
- 3.Bell County residents pack courthouse, vow to fight data center over water, noise, and roads · Yahoo News · retrieved September 15, 2026
- 4.See where data center developers are looking to build in Kentucky (project tracker: Bell County, Murray Industries, planned) · Hoptown Chronicle / Kentucky Lantern · retrieved September 15, 2026
- 5.OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Pineville, Bell County, KY · OpenStreetMap · retrieved September 15, 2026
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