A 2,000-acre land parcel has been rezoned for data center use in Mason County, Kentucky.

The Mason County Fiscal Court voted on May 22 to rezone 28 properties totaling 2,080 acres of land north of Germantown Road for rural industrial use, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

It was previously reported in November 2025 that an anonymous developer was surveying around 5,000 acres of land near the same area. Twenty residents were offered deals to sell their land for significantly above market value.

This generated a great deal of opposition from local residents, who formed a public Facebook group called “We are Mason County, KY” that has around 4,300 members at time of writing. They have proposed that county officials impose a moratorium on data centers, and a petition against the proposed campus has gathered more than 1,200 signatures at time of writing.

The rezoning was proposed by Maysville-Mason County Industrial Authority, which is the City of Maysville’s economic development agency.

According to development proposals, the campus will consist of six 718,740 sq ft (66,773 sqm) data center buildings and three substations.

The City of Maysville and the Fleming-Mason Energy Cooperative, a local utility, have both said that they would be able to provide water and electricity to the data center.

The end-user of the facility has been described as “a US-based Fortune 50 technology company” by law firm FBT Gibbons in a presentation to local authorities.

The presentation also claims that the company will pay 100 percent of the electrical and water infrastructure costs, as well as road improvements, whilst supporting up to 2,600 employees, most of whom will be construction workers.

Details about the campus' IT capacity were not provided, but it was previously reported that it would offer around 2.2GW of capacity.

Mason County is located in northern Kentucky and borders Ohio. It should not be confused with Mason County, West Virginia, which also borders Ohio.

Although Kentucky has traditionally not been a prominent data center market, there has been a recent influx of interest in the state. This has led to backlash in some counties, including Oldham County, which passed a 150-day data center moratorium in July 2025.