Murray Industries Pineville Data Center
Murray Industries · Pineville, KY · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 36.7620301, -83.6949176
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU)
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 360 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
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. He also says the project would bring 'more than 100 jobs' (WKYT, July 2026), a floor; the recorded 100 permanent jobs is that floor, not a projected total. As of October 2026, none of the cited sources says which cooling design this project would use. 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.
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.
Sources and provenance
- Bell County residents pack courthouse to oppose data center construction · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Bell County passed a data center moratorium. Residents worry that work continues. · source retrieved 2026-10-22
- Bell County residents pack courthouse, vow to fight data center over water, noise, and roads · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- See where data center developers are looking to build in Kentucky (project tracker: Bell County, Murray Industries, planned) · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Pineville, Bell County, KY · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- WKYT Investigates: Bell County family fights proposed data center · source retrieved 2026-10-22
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.