Report: Data Center Investment, Ratepayer Protections Can Both Happen

Report: Data center investment, ratepayer protections can both happen

FRANKFORT As communities around Kentucky protest planned data centers, a new state energy group says data centers can be part of the state’s future, thanks to its cheap power and available land.

Data center investment, ratepayer protections can both happen, state report argues

By Liam Niemeyer, Kentucky Lantern · June 4, 2026 FRANKFORT — As communities around Kentucky protest planned data centers, a new state energy group says data centers can be part of the state’s future, thanks to its cheap power and available land. The state can bring in hyperscale data centers while also ensuring electricity ratepayers are protected, the executive director of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission, or EPIC, said at a Thursd…