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What Should We Know About Data Centers? We have Questions.

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Updated 6/5/25


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Jefferson County Data Center Concerns


There has been a lot of buzz in Oldham county Kentucky about the proposed hyperscale data center that is looking to get approval for location and site specifics. There have been several hearings where questions and concerns are being addressed by residents and proposals being made by various agencies who are providing the findings of their studies, as it should be, for public transparency. The forums do not seem to be conducted in a way that suits those residents who want more opportunities to speak or want to know how to address the agencies that are involved in various aspects of the project and how to protect their rights as men and women born in this country. And for the sake of the community, the people need to have a voice.


Jefferson County Kentucky is also going to be getting a hyperscale data center. Did you know? The first time I heard of it was in January of this year 2025 when I saw a story published about it, but it was limited on the information it provided. Apparently there was an announcement by Mayor Greenburg with few details as early as April 2024 so in 10 months some sort of deal was made. There are other data centers in Louisville, but this will be the first hyperscale data center.


January 2025 was shortly after President Trump came into office and started talking about his new plans for Operation Stargate on the 2nd day of his administration. Do you know what Operation Stargate is? It is another thing that we should be researching to understand how it will affect us. And will very much rely on data centers. More on that later.


The first question you might be asking is what are these hyperscale data centers for? Why do we need such high-capacity data storage facilities anyway? And the simple answer is that the data that is being collected on each and everyone of us is growing exponentially and it needs to be collected somewhere. We can learn some information from previous data centers already built. We will come back to this question and dig a little deeper as well.


Another question you may have is, “Who” exactly is collecting this data and what are they doing with it? You may not be fully aware of the permissions you have given to collect information on you, because it is in the fine print of the digital forms that you sign without seeing it, or that are in the application settings that you may not check to see what permissions you are giving. When you get notified of an update in “terms of service” for things you are signed up for, do you read the fine print on those updated terms? This information is tied to medical records, social media accounts, insurance, IRS etc. And a digital profile is being built of you and your data. Not all agencies may be sharing your information with each other yet, but the goal is to have your data compiled as a digital twin of you. But before we get into all of that. Let us just start with the practical matters. Jefferson County Data Center Concerns


We have reached out to Louisville Metro Council District 1 Representative, Tammy Hawkins to get some help with information since the data center is slated to be built in her district. We do not know where to look for the impact studies and the recordings of the public hearings that must have also been conducted for this Jefferson County data center (that we did not hear about leading up to the site approval for the Jefferson County location). So we have asked her to point us in the right direction for the information. A simple search for “data center” on the www.louisvilleky.gov did not turn up anything. Metro Councilwoman Hawkins has a scheduling conflict, but is sending a representative to our meeting. If you are in the know and saw notices of these hearings when they were conducted, that is great. Please help us out, because we missed it. And if you live in District 1 and can speak to this topic please let us know. Anyone wanting specific information may need to submit an open records request for specifics.


What We Do Know.

The information that I have been able to find on the Jefferson County Data Center is this. PowerHouse Data Centers, Camp Ground Rd, 40216 Louisville, Kentucky, USA


The PowerHouse Louisville data center campus is a groundbreaking project set to become Kentucky's first hyperscale data center campus. Located on a 154-acre site in Louisville, the campus will feature up to six buildings, totaling 1.8 million square feet, with a maximum utility power capacity of 402 MW (megawatts). The first phase, offering 130 MW of capacity, is expected to be operational by October 2026. Developed in partnership with Poe Companies, this campus is designed to meet the growing demand for cloud and AI computing, offering state-of-the-art infrastructure and reliability. With support from Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E) and local community collaboration, the project aims to position Louisville as a key hub for cutting-edge digital infrastructure.


However the website does not provide any further details.


aerial view of data center site.


Where most would see an empty field in southern Louisville, Poe Companies President Hank Hillebrand sees the future of the city.


His company is partnering with PowerHouse Data Centers to develop 150 acres along Camp Ground Road into the first Hyperscale Data Center campus in the Commonwealth.



Powerhouse gives their general approach to sustainability goals and model that they follow on their website, but again not very specific.


So what are the concerns that we should have about this data center?


Transparency

So Where is the Transparency of information? What community meetings were held when this Jefferson County land use was being proposed? Did the community have an opportunity to be presented with information and weigh in with questions and concerns?


We can see by what is happening in nearby Oldham County that we must stay diligent to ensure transparency. And in this particular hearing, LG&E was not present to provide information to Oldham County residents about the impact on electric utility usage.


Other related Oldham County meetings in fiscal court are not demonstrating transparency either.


Well let’s hear the perspective from Dr Lance Pearson, a resident of Oldham County who is active in his community and the legislative process in Kentucky, making this statement in a letter to the Editor of the Oldham County Record. Letter to follow:


Lance Letter to the Editor – Oldham Co Record. Letters to the Editor - Mar 31, 2025 Updated Apr 1, 2025


Due diligence required before data center decisions


Dear Editor, The Oldham Era reported this week that a massive data warehouse project, with numbers as high as $6 billion in total investment, is seeking approval and rezoning in Oldham County. The report was rather light on details however, so I will wait for more information: The initial Technical Review Committee meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m., on April 16 at 100 W Jefferson St., La Grange. My initial reactions, however, run the gamut: Excitement at the purported scope of investment, potential for a some good paying local jobs and economic growth, and perhaps a bump in tax revenue — even after the costs and incentives; Skepticism about the scope of tax incentives that may be involved, about the true investors and proprietors of this deal — WHP? — potential for this falling through or being repurposed, viability of the project, and the infrastructure required to support it, and Concern about the environmental impact, resource requirements, potential negative health effects — which I haven’t studied — noise, heat, and pollution potential, location, and secondary costs. It is important to note, while $6 billion is a very impressive number, the local impact/benefit from data warehouses is typically a remarkably tiny fraction of the total investment. The vast majority of the investment goes toward buying semiconductors, networking equipment and cooling systems — almost all made overseas. The workers who utilize the data centers are almost all remote — literally all over the globe — with a small number of local jobs sustained on-site. The ongoing local expenditures are typically just electricity and perhaps water — depending on how cooling is managed. In short, data centers are often businesses with among the least local benefit to investment cost ratio. Tremendous due diligence needs to go into specifically how this investment would tangibly benefit Oldham County, or even the state, as well as what potential negatives exist before our local officials decide to render a verdict. It is certainly possible that the right project of this sort could be a major benefit to our county, but that is the appropriate lens through which to view this proposal, and right now we have far more questions than answers. Thanks very much, Dr. Lance Pearson, Pewee Valley, KY

Legislative Impact

And surely our government, who works for us, would be transparent with the legislature, right? Well Dr. Lance Pearson, goes on to make this statement in a facebook post.



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HB775 went through Appropriations and Revenue on both sides: House: https://legislature.ky.gov/Committees/Pages/Committee-Details.aspx?CommitteeRSN=84&Com mitteeType=House%20Standing%20Committee Senate: https://legislature.ky.gov/Committees/Pages/Committee-Details.aspx?CommitteeRSN=74&Com mitteeType=Senate%20Standing%20Committee


This legislature has given the data center developers, tax exemptions for the next 50 years. However, the Legislative representative in Oldham County is engaged with her constituents' concerns as with this example in a post on her facebook account.


Senator Lindsay Tischner The OC Data Center has become a very important issue for residents of Oldham Co, the proposed site of “Project Lincoln.” I recently drove by a similar project just across the bridge in Jeffersonville, IN, to lay eyes on what this could look like in Oldham Co. Project Lincoln would sit on a 267-acre piece of property on N. Hwy 53, which is zoned agriculture and conservation. Currently, there is no plan to change the zoning on that property. There would be 40 acres of buildings, 70’-75’ tall. The developer expects a 5-year buildout, with 1,500+ construction workers during that time period, with final employment of 175+ people. The volume of traffic during construction years could cause a Jefferson County Data Center Concerns significant issue with the current infrastructure in LaGrange and the surrounding areas. You can find more about the proposal at the OC Data Center’s Facebook page.

But what do the residents get?

Utility rate increases. The Louisville area's gas and electric service (LG&E) will seek an 11.5% rate increase to support what it called "necessary system enhancements." MSD also just was approved for rate increases.


Can we look to other established hyperscale data centers to see what concerns might be justified?


Georgia, which is a popular location for data centers, also weighs in on how the data centers have had an impact in their state. Many residents say that they have been negatively impacted in several areas of concern, but they are not being heard (they are being told) because the positive economic benefit to the community as a whole outweighs the individual impact it has had on a minority of residents.


Energy Impact

One can’t help but think that we will need to upgrade our electric power infrastructure to meet the high power needed to run these data centers and those power costs are being passed onto the public. The electric power needed for the proposed data center is comparable to what would be needed to power 400,000 homes once completed. So will these electrical grid enhancements be covered by the utility cost increases residents must absorb? or will more backup power be necessary?


Nuclear power seems to be what is sourced to make up the difference in many communities, but are shown to have catastrophic effects. The site location for the Jefferson County Data Center was key because of its access to water from the Ohio River as a cooling resource for the heat put out by the computer processing. But impact on Water Consumption is also a concern for impact on the environment. A summary on energy impact in general can be heard at the following link. Danger: Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Are Overwhelming The Global Electrical Grid.

Health Impact


What about Data Center Noise? Neighbors say Northern Virginia data centers emit a noise they just can't tune out.


What about radiation? We are already bombarded by 5G towers and radiation emitted by so many sources that we cannot see, and while we are told that these data centers do not emit high levels of radiation, they are contributing to the cumulative amount and do we really know what the total impact is?


Economic Impact

It is said that the Data Center will create a few hundred jobs. Do we know what type of jobs will be created? Will they be locally sourced and will they be long term jobs? Will there be training for jobs to employ members of the community?


We have also heard it said that local businesses will benefit from money spent in the site area during the site construction period, but to what extent? Where are the impact studies so we can give the community businesses information that would allow them to plan for how to maximize this opportunity.


Environmental Impact


Where are the environmentalists and the sustainable development goal advocates on this? No matter where you stand on “climate change” as a whole, we know that there will be an impact on the environment with this data center project. Where are the impact studies? Indiana has already addressed environmental concerns for the impact data centers are having in their state.


If these were not enough reasons for concern, there is a spiritual component that takes this topic to another level.


Technocracy and Tyrannical Impact


These data centers are storing data that is collected from many of the Big Tech companies we know as Google, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Microsoft, just to name a few. And Artificial Intelligence (A.I) is increasing the rate in which data can be collected, processed and organized for many purposes. As we have stated one of the goals is for this data to be assembled as a digital twin representation of you.


What is the long game? Where is all this technology leading to?


Many have attended an event we cosponsored with the Southern Indiana Patriots back in 2022. Where we had speakers like Patrick Wood talking about technocracy, transhumanism, and the New World Order. And while you may have been concerned about it, now in 2025 it is at our doorstep.


The “Big Beautiful Bill”


Buried deep in Congress’s 1,116-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is a provision so sweeping, so dystopian, and so underreported that it’s hard to believe it was passed at all.


● Section 43201 of the bill, blandly titled the “Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology Modernization Initiative,” doesn’t just fund the federal Jefferson County Data Center Concerns government’s full-scale AI expansion—it removes every state’s right to regulate artificial intelligence for the next decade.


Let that sink in: For the next ten years, no state in America—not even your state—will be allowed to create its own safeguards, protections, or liability standards for how AI is developed or deployed.


“No State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models… during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.”

● Sec. 43201(c)(1) of the bill


Do you think governmental legislation like this has our best interests in mind? We can no longer say that this is a futuristic issue that might happen someday. It is happening in real time right before our eyes. We have brought you presentations on other pieces of the Control Grid that are being built to take your freedoms away one piece at a time. Data Centers are just the infrastructure used to house the means of operating that control grid.


We must be discerning of the motives behind the methods. There are mixed messages out there and it is hard to find the truth. But we have to listen to what people are telling us. And ask questions. It may be concerning to some that Elon Musk said in an interview with Jordan Peterson that his Data Training Center in Memphis, TN (as he connects its relationship back to the Memphis in ancient Egypt) is “perhaps where our new Bible/God Comes from” he says as he laughs. What did he mean by that?



Take it from a former Big Tech Employee Whistleblower that Big Tech Companies are reshaping reality.

And let’s not forget Operation Stargate A more recent development is the announcement of a new Stargate Project in 2025, which is a collaboration between the U.S. government, tech giants, and private investors aiming to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and infrastructure. This project aims to create the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of AI technologies and is expected to receive an investment of $100 billion, potentially rising to $500 billion by 2029.



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Update 5/29/25

You can Find Dr Simon weighing in on the Data Center Topic on WGTK Kentuckiana's Voice Look for prerecorded show dated May 29, 2025


The May Kentucky Family Association Meeting was attended by

Olivia Bennett, Legislative Assistant to Councilwoman Tammy Hawkins, District 1

601 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY 40202

(502) 574-1101 (ofc) (502) 574-3906 (direct)


Olivia Bennett stated that the District 1 office had not heard from anyone with concerns or questions about the proposed data center before we contacted them with concerns. Olivia kindly heard our concerns and took down our questions to present to the Planning and Design Services Committee (502-574-6230) as well as the developer Poe Companies on our behalf once she finds out the proper avenue for questions gathered. She will provide us a copy of what she submits and we will make that available when she has that ready to submit. It will include a case # that we should include with any correspondence that individuals wish to submit on their own. She recommended that we send our concerns to the metro council clerk email address: metrocouncilclerk@louisvilleky.gov (502.574.3902) and ask that it be sent to all council members, not just your own District representative. While each district will respond to their own constituents, informing all members will get your message to everyone because this issue affects more than just District 1. Olivia strongly encouraged us to hold our metro council members accountable. And that there is strength in numbers.


Attendees to our meeting who wished to participate, signed a petition that was Acknowledged by Olivia Bennett. We were given permission from signers to share and include additional signature pages if you wish to add your name and submit and have included in the case. (documents attached)





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