Submer is set to build its first data center in the US on the site of a former steel mill in Kentucky.
The cooling vendor turned data center operator is proposing a data center with up to 2GW of capacity at the former AK Steel mill in Russell, a city in eastern Kentucky near the state border with West Virginia.
If granted planning permission, it will spend up to $12 billion on the project, which will be built and operated by its new AI data center subsidiary, Rubix.
According to a report in the Kentucky Lantern, Rubix has told officials in Russell that it wants to construct eight buildings on the site, and that the data center would use 55 million gallons of water a year.
It said the facility would create 200 full-time jobs, and deliver millions of dollars in tax revenue for Russell.
