Carroll County Digital Campus (Ghent)
Deca Companies · Ghent, KY · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 38.7375625, -85.0582835
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Owen Electric Cooperative
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-15
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- 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.
Underlying source
Source notes
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 1–3 (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.
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.
Sources and provenance
- DECA proposing $4B data center in Carroll County · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- Carroll County Digital Campus — project information site (Deca) · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- Louisville developer eyes second $9.6B hyperscale data center in Carroll County (describes the separate DECA project east of Ghent, $4B, Owen Electric Cooperative) · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- See where data center developers are looking to build in Kentucky (project tracker: Carroll County, Deca Companies, planned) · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Ghent, Carroll County, KY · source retrieved 2026-09-15
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.