The U.S. Department of Energy selected a former uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky for negotiations over a privately financed AI data-center and power complex valued at up to $100 billion. The plan includes gas generation, batteries and grid upgrades. The Department of Energy selected a former Kentucky uranium-enrichment site for project negotiations. The proposed complex is valued at up to $100 billion.
Plans call for a 1.8-gigawatt AI data-center campus. The energy package includes about 2 gigawatts of new natural-gas generation and 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage. The cited accounts attribute institutional claims to the officials or organizations making them and distinguish those statements from independently established events.
Cold War nuclear sites have large land areas and federal infrastructure. AI data centers create unusually large and concentrated power demand. Project announcements precede environmental review, final contracts and construction financing. These background conditions describe the setting in which the current development occurred without resolving the decisions or outcomes still pending.
Transmission upgrades are included in the concept. Private developers would finance and build the project under leases and approvals that were still being negotiated. The chronology and reported quantities are preserved because later official updates may revise preliminary counts or schedules.
The current evidentiary limit is specific: The full project had not reached final investment decision, permitting or construction. The report therefore does not extend beyond the published record on motive, causation, final totals, legal outcome or implementation where those matters remain open.
The next documented developments are lease and financing agreements and environmental review and power interconnection milestones. Until those records appear, the available account supports the facts above while leaving the identified uncertainties unresolved.