On the Desk

A 153-acre data center approved beside Rubbertown, the historically industrial, majority-Black stretch of southwest Louisville. It cleared after a moratorium sat in committee for eleven months and expired unpassed. A resident made six specific claims about it in public comment at Metro Council on 13 August 2026. The file checks all six against the record, one at a time.

Held in the file

• Planning Commission case files 25-CAT3-0006 and 25-CAT3-0015, including the approved plan and the July 2026 redline.
• Ordinance O-135-26 in three versions, the 13 August 2026 Council action summary, and the enacted text.
• The developer’s own fiscal impact analysis, emailed to Metro on 25 September 2025 by the president of Poe Companies.
• The Kentucky Department of Revenue’s 2025 annual report on data center projects, dated 4 May 2026.

The Kentucky Department of Revenue reported on 4 May 2026 that it had received no notification of any approved data center project in the Commonwealth and had issued no certificates of exemption. That’s the department’s account of its own program, and it’s four months old.

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