Rubix Ashland Works Data Center Campus
Rubix Data Centers (Submer Group) · Russell, KY · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 38.5173028, -82.6976631
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 2000 MW
- 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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Proposed on roughly 425 acres of the former AK Steel Ashland Works brownfield (now Cleveland-Cliffs property) along the Ohio River; reporting says the majority of the project area falls inside the City of Russell in Greenup County, with the remainder in Boyd County. Rubix Data Centers is a subsidiary of Barcelona-based Submer Group. Infrastructure investment is reported as a range of $8–12 billion, so no single investment figure is asserted. The company says construction would employ thousands and the operating facility 200 people at an average salary of $125,000, and that Russell could expect tens of millions of dollars in local property tax revenue. Coordinates are the Russell city centroid and are approximate — the mapped Ashland Works footprint extends east into Boyd County, roughly 3 km from this pin. Separate from, and roughly twice the size of, the TeraWulf Muskie campus at EastPark in the same corner of the state, tracked separately as of September 2026.
Sources and provenance
- Developer proposes hyperscale data center at former Eastern Kentucky steel mill · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- Data centers need massive power. They're eyeing Kentucky's idle industrial sites to get it. (AK Steel mill, Boyd and Greenup counties, 2 GW, Spain-based developer) · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- Data centers eyeing Kentucky's idle industrial sites to get massive power · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode of Russell, Greenup 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.