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Electricity costs not passed to residents under utility contract

Company: TeraWulf

Subject kind
regulatory
Statement date
2026-08-21
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Under its contract with Big Rivers Electric Corp. and Kenergy, none of the cost of powering the data center would be passed on to residents

Source (primary)

KY utility regulator OKs electricity contract for TeraWulf’s Hancock County data center project - WEKU (-, news_article)
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Quote: “It has also said, under its contract with regional electric cooperative Big Rivers Electric Corp. and local utility Kenergy, none of the cost of powering the data center would be passed on to residents.”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 14, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.weku.org/the-commonwealth/2026-08-21/ky-utility-regulator-oks-electricity-contract-for-terawulfs-hancock-county-data-center-project?_amp\\u003dtrue) in full (11,588 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms KY utility regulator OKs electricity contract for TeraWulf’s Hancock County data center project - WEKU

Quote: “It has also said, under its contract with regional electric cooperative Big Rivers Electric Corp. and local utility Kenergy, none of the cost of powering the data center would be passed on to residents.”

View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗