Justified Data

Project of TeraWulf

Kind

datacenter

Location

Hawesville, Kentucky

County

Hancock

State/region

KY

Country

US

Status

announced as of October 15, 2026

Where it stands

TeraWulf's Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, is a former Century Aluminum smelter. It is anchored by a 20-year lease with Anthropic for about 401 MW of critical IT, and in August 2026 the Kentucky PSC approved a power agreement for up to 482 MW. First power is expected in the second half of 2027, and the passages describe the site as still under development with no capacity in service. No passage explicitly says construction has started, and a credit backstop for Hawesville was still listed as a pending catalyst in October 2026.

401 MW planned

Assessed October 18, 2026 from the newest filings, releases and reporting that name this project (newest relied on: October 15, 2026).

Capacity

What has actually been delivered, against what has been promised. Each figure links to the statement it came from.

Who has claimed this site

Capacity commitments in the order they were announced. A commitment that ended shows why.

Claims about this project

Site intelligence

1627 State Rte 3543, Hawesville, KY 42348, USA

Candidate

Hancock, KY

37.9412, -86.7883

Approximate address 1627 State Rte 3543, Hawesville, KY 42348, USA Reverse-geocoded from the candidate centroid; not a permit-confirmed parcel address.

Conclusion so far Something is built and runs warm, but it is dark at night -- not called yet. · confidence 30%

Undetermined -- a built footprint runs warm, but it is not lit at night -- construction and a dark-running site look alike from orbit: night-time lights at the site ran 2.47x the surrounding area (0 of 3 clear nights, 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-03); surface temperature +3.4 K against its surroundings (3 pass(es), 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-13). Based on 18 clear observation(s) from 2026-06-21 to 2026-10-19.

What would change this: Night-time lights at the footprint (operating), or year-over-year change (construction).

Latest clear imagery: Google 2026-10-18 · Sentinel-2 2026-10-13 · ECOSTRESS thermal 2026-10-13 · radar 2026-10-10 · night lights 2026-10-03 · Landsat 2026-09-26 · NAIP 2022-09-30

Newest clear images148 clear image date(s)

How we located this site

35/100 (candidate): street location 25 + 1 independent source family 10

1. Starting point (the project's stated locality) 2026-10-19
   Hawesville, Kentucky → 37.90006, -86.75499 (locality)
2. Located from a published address 2026-10-19
   Century Aluminum Smelter → 37.94118, -86.78832 (street), 5.4 km from seed
3. OpenStreetMap features nearby 2026-10-19
   0 named match(es)

Recent changes

• 2026-09-28 vs 2026-09-11: structural change (radar signal shift) — Sentinel-1 backscatter decreased by roughly 3.2 dB in both VH and VV polarizations over the 17 days between scenes, consistent with a structural change such as removal or alteration of surface features at the site.
• 2026-07-16 vs 2026-06-30: vegetation recovery visible
• 2025-01-31 vs 2025-01-16: new roof or pavement visible
• 2025-04-26 vs 2025-04-08: vegetation recovery visible
• 2025-06-03 vs 2025-04-08: vegetation recovery visible

Satellite imagery on this page is drawn from the Google Earth satellite basemap, USDA NAIP aerial photography (~1 m/pixel), ESA Sentinel-2 multispectral (10 m, with per-date cloud masks), NASA / USGS Landsat 8/9 (30 m, plus surface temperature), ESA Sentinel-1 radar (all-weather, night), NASA ECOSTRESS thermal (~70 m), and NASA Black Marble night lights (500 m, daily). Each image is dated, labelled by source and pixel resolution, and downloadable at its native size; cloudy dates are kept and marked rather than hidden. New scenes are pulled daily as each provider publishes them.