Hancock County 340-megawatt hyperscale data center

Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.

The article confirms the hyperscale project at the shuttered Hancock County Century Aluminum smelter, but it gives the size as 482 megawatts, not 340.

Confirmed in the source:

• TeraWulf wants to build a hyperscale data center at the site of the former Century Aluminum smelter
• The smelter site is in Hancock County, Kentucky
• The former smelter halted operations in 2022

We could not confirm this from the cited source:

• The proposed data center's capacity is 340 megawatts — this article states the proposed capacity as 482 megawatts

That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.

What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/terawulf-commits-to-beshear-s-data-center-requirements/article_31b03dfb-fc1a-4edb-942b-c5501fe1e359.html) in full (8,809 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

confirms TeraWulf commits to Beshear’s data center requirements - Daily Independent

Quote: “TeraWulf wants to build a 340-megawatt hyperscale data center at the site of the former Century Aluminum smelter that halted operations in 2022”

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