Brookfield to develop gigawatt-scale data center campus at DOE's Kentucky nuclear enrichment plant

A gigawatt-scale data center campus is planned at a former nuclear enrichment site owned by the Department of Energy (DOE) in Kentucky.

A coalition of companies, including investment giant Brookfield, announced a partnership this week to develop a campus at the DOE’s Paducah site in the state.

– Department of Energy

At full build-out, the campus could support up to 1.8GW of utility capacity and more than 1.2GW of compute capacity by 2032. The campus would include up to 4.6GW of dedicated generation resources paid for and built specifically for the project.

As well as Brookfield, the coalition includes NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative, and Paducah Power System.